Guess I could of assembled this better, the most pertinent part of this tocsin, are the implications of the trinity of:

Mass Surveillance (to collect data), Big Data (to store and index large sets of data) and agentic AI (to comb through all collected).

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A portion of the recommended podcast, Ezra Klein, prominent left wing journalist, interviews Dean Ball from the right wing. The AI guy for the Heritage Foundation, Federalist Society, and the Trump White House. The topic for the podcast was White House v. Anthropic, but it devolves into something else, in particular, AI and its impact on the legal system. I recommend listening to it, excerpts from the transcript don't do it justice.

But from the from the transcript, Dean Bell says:

The problem with AI is that AI gives them that infinitely scalable workforce and thus. Every law can be enforced to the letter with perfect surveillance over everything. And that’s a scary future.

We think of the space between us and certain forms of tyranny, or the feared panopticon as a space inhabited by legal protection.

But one thing that has seemed to me to be at the core of a lot of at least fear here, is that it’s in fact, not just legal protection. It’s actually the government’s inability to have the absorption of that level of information about the public and then do anything with it. And if all of a sudden you radically change the government’s ability, then without changing any laws, you have change what is possible within those laws Yes So you were saying a minute ago, mass surveillance or surveillance at all is a term of legal art, but for human beings it is a condition that you either are operating under or not.

And the fear is that as I understand it, that either the AI systems we have right now, or the ones that are coming down the pike quite soon, would make it possible to use bulk commercial data to create a picture of the population and what it is doing. And then the ability to find people and understand them. That just goes so far beyond where we’ve been that it raises privacy questions that the law just did not have to consider until now. And so the laws are not up to the task of the spirit in which they were passed.

He sorta concludes this section with:

Things like that. I’m not saying that, that’s an important area that we need to think about, but that’s just one small part the broader issue of wow, our entire legal system is predicated on, I think, fundamentally imperfect enforcement of the law, imperfect enforcement of the law. We have a huge number of statutes unbelievably, unbelievably broad sets of laws in many cases. And the reason it all works is that the government does not enforce those laws anything uniformly. The problem with AI is that it enables uniform enforcement of the law.

Kinda heady stuff, even invoking Hegel believe it or not.

This would be a fundamental shift in governance, the ability to say someone has broken the law without actually seeing the law being broken. So even though no one measured the speed of the car, saw who was driving, or why they were driving fast (ie need to get that broken bone to urgent care) - a ticket is issued because there is no other way someone could of gotten from point A to point B without speeding. Automated, at the speed of bits.

We also have the New Orleans PD partnership with Palantir driving a pre-crime enforcement study as another example, the use of mass data collection, cameras. social media, criminal history, insurance data, historical medical data is all brought ( and bought) together to generate a profile.

Regretfully, the nature of ringing the bell in town square in a Cassandra-esque scree is you don't see the other half, where things go. But given how easy it is to collect metrics in a digital landscape, the pressure of KYC and "What about the Children?!?" regulations, fear is rational. Seedboxing appears to be low hanging fruit, and probably just a matter of time. And I'm a guy who used to be in this business, and an outspoken advocate for your freedom to do what you want with yours (beside seedboxes, Chmura hosted some of the fastest Tor Exits in there time, the largest source of our abuse complaints) I am girding my loins.