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Anthropic is building a surveillance system to monitor anti-AI activists

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The company lists activism as a “global threat.” WTF?? Does this even make sense? Amodei, the man who left OpenAI because he wanted to be the champion of AI safety, now see AI activism as a threat?

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  1. 2026-09-12 12:06 · r/antiai
    "Anthropic Is Building a Huge Surveillance System to Spy on Anti-AI Activists and Predict Their Activities"
  2. 2026-09-10 20:04 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Anthropic is building a surveillance system to monitor anti-AI activists
  3. 2026-09-10 19:59 · r/agi
    Anthropic is building a surveillance system to monitor anti-AI activists

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