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Due to AI, “We are about to enter the era of mass spying,” says Bruce Schneier (arstechnica.com)

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Schneier: AI will enable a shift from observing actions to interpreting intentions, en masse.

Benj Edwards - 12/5/2023, 8:53 PM

In an editorial for Slate published Monday, renowned security researcher Bruce Schneier warned that AI models may enable a new era of mass spying, allowing companies and governments to automate the process of analyzing and summarizing large volumes of conversation data, fundamentally lowering barriers to spying activities that currently require human labor.

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[–] retrieval4558@mander.xyz 11 points 11 months ago

They already collect mountains of data and metadata. I think the scary and new thing that AI has the potential for is faster, cheaper, and more effective ANALYSIS of that data... and to what end? (Almost) nothing good.