ALT The image contains a quote from the article by Jasper Jackson. It reads: ““Most industry proposals for what, exactly, can be done about AI’s economic impact on workers have been vague allusions to a universal basic income, or giving the public stakes in companies, or a world of abundance so great that having an income won’t be necessary”

ALT The quote from Jasper Jackson reads: “The company that built the model, with a whole host of personal, institutional and financial incentives in play, got to decide who the investigators were and what they saw”

ALT The following images contain the first section of James Ball’s article. It reads: “There are almost too many ways it could start. Emboldened ICE agents are sent en masse into another blue city. The White House sends federal agents to “observe” polling stations. Federalized national guards are deployed. In the face of what they see as a life-or-death threat to their neighbors — or to American democracy itself — local residents start to mobilize, as they have in so many cities before. As public social media accounts post details of protests, these are already being cross-referenced against bulk public datasets — bought, entirely legally, by federal agencies — to identify who is behind them. Connecting your TikTok account to a shop for a discount, or using X to log in to a delivery service just once, is enough: entirely legally, your anonymous social media account is tied to your real identity, and perhaps even your home address..."

ALT The second image continues James Ball’s article. It reads: “Under the guise of monitoring for foreign interference in US politics, the FBI has been operating hundreds of AI-powered personas, or “bot” accounts, based in different US cities. Having built up a posting history over the course of months, these AI agents easily earn the trust required to get inside the various Signal and Telegram groups used to mobilize resistance, gathering information about meet places, timings and unguarded statements. Usernames and other details are easily matched to real-world identities, including their full online histories, their Amazon purchases, their…everything. By the time anyone even takes to the streets, the government has the contents of their messages and coordination, and has preloaded facial recognition systems and geo-tagging tools to ping when certain individuals cross a police line, or enter somewhere off-limits..."

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ALT Graphic alt text: The quote from Dan Kagan-Kans reads: “There is an enormous gap between the intensity of “AI” as a matter of discourse or contemplation and AI as a daily object. That excess energy needs to go somewhere. Right now, it is going into data centers. It almost has to. Where else could it go? The Claude logo?”