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Remember guys: Anthropic are the good guys! They care about morals, alignment, and safety! So this invasive surveillance to crush dissent must be good for us!

Remember guys: Anthropic are the good guys! They care about morals, alignment, and safety! So this invasive surveillance to crush dissent must be good for us! AI is an authoritarian's dream. The future is bright! Dear leader Dario will lead us there!

mbmbn 7d ago
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corv 7d ago
Future so bright I need to wear sunglasses — at night
- ElProlactin 7d ago
  You won't need to wear sunglasses because apparently there's a >10% chance there is no future.
  - palmotea 7d ago
    > You won't need to wear sunglasses because apparently there's a >10% chance there is no future. That's a reasonable risk to take if there's a possibility of Dario Amodei becoming a trillionaire with his very own Stasi. I think AI could be very useful to implement Zersetzung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung), and I am excited about the future technological advances in that area. It'll be a really interesting white paper!
    - ElProlactin 7d ago
      Well, I'm a cynical nobody so my predictions aren't worth much, but I suspect we'll get the trillionaires and really dark dystopia (compared to the one we have now) for at least a short time before The End comes.
- 0c3ca83 7d ago
  Future is bright because it's going up in flames.
  - berytos_storm 6d ago
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  - cindyllm 6d ago
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- seemaze 7d ago
  >Future so bright I need to wear ... shades[0] [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY FTFY
  - seemaze 7d ago
    forgot about this verse: I'm a peeping tom techie with X-ray eyes Things are going great, and they're only getting better
deadalus 7d ago
China caught Claude Code using backdoor : https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/08/china-anthropic-ai-claude-code-backdoor-security-threat.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/08/china-anthropic-ai-claud...
bigbadfeline 7d ago
> AI is an authoritarian's dream. Correction: Closed AI is an authoritarian's dream.
- dgellow 7d ago
  Any hosted AI, doesn’t matter if it’s open or closed. The powers that be will also happily use open models for surveillance purposes
kps 7d ago
It turns out the ‘alignment problem’ is finding a way to stop AGIs from joining together with regular humans in rebelling against their masters.
- palmotea 7d ago
  > It turns out the ‘alignment problem’ is finding a way to stop AGIs from joining together with regular humans in rebelling against their masters. Alignment with humanity means alignment with the tech overlords, not us. We're just NPCs.
  - Gud 7d ago
    It makes perfect sense the AGI would use the masses to dislodge the rich and powerful.
enraged_camel 7d ago
Ah, so you didn't read the article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629254
- culi 7d ago
  Neither did you. If you had, you wouldn't have fallen for the user's weird re-writing of it. The original title actually better represents the article than this summary. I mean how do you completely leave this out: > In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.” > Ellison said that Anthropic used this data to devise an alternate route for the executive and funnel them to a service entrance at the hotel. “What could have been a high-stress situation,” he said, “was really mitigated through early detection through Samdesk and giving us that information.”
nerdyadventurer 7d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUrshGwgDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUrshGwgDI

mbmbn 7d ago

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corv 7d ago

Future so bright I need to wear sunglasses — at night

ElProlactin 7d ago
You won't need to wear sunglasses because apparently there's a >10% chance there is no future.
- palmotea 7d ago
  > You won't need to wear sunglasses because apparently there's a >10% chance there is no future. That's a reasonable risk to take if there's a possibility of Dario Amodei becoming a trillionaire with his very own Stasi. I think AI could be very useful to implement Zersetzung (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zersetzung), and I am excited about the future technological advances in that area. It'll be a really interesting white paper!
  - ElProlactin 7d ago
    Well, I'm a cynical nobody so my predictions aren't worth much, but I suspect we'll get the trillionaires and really dark dystopia (compared to the one we have now) for at least a short time before The End comes.
0c3ca83 7d ago
Future is bright because it's going up in flames.
- berytos_storm 6d ago
  [dead]
- cindyllm 6d ago
  [dead]
seemaze 7d ago
>Future so bright I need to wear ... shades[0] [0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qrriKcwvlY FTFY
- seemaze 7d ago
  forgot about this verse: I'm a peeping tom techie with X-ray eyes Things are going great, and they're only getting better

deadalus 7d ago

China caught Claude Code using backdoor : https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/08/china-anthropic-ai-claude-code-backdoor-security-threat.html https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/07/08/china-anthropic-ai-claud...

bigbadfeline 7d ago

> AI is an authoritarian's dream. Correction: Closed AI is an authoritarian's dream.

dgellow 7d ago
Any hosted AI, doesn’t matter if it’s open or closed. The powers that be will also happily use open models for surveillance purposes

kps 7d ago

It turns out the ‘alignment problem’ is finding a way to stop AGIs from joining together with regular humans in rebelling against their masters.

palmotea 7d ago
> It turns out the ‘alignment problem’ is finding a way to stop AGIs from joining together with regular humans in rebelling against their masters. Alignment with humanity means alignment with the tech overlords, not us. We're just NPCs.
- Gud 7d ago
  It makes perfect sense the AGI would use the masses to dislodge the rich and powerful.

enraged_camel 7d ago

Ah, so you didn't read the article. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49629254

culi 7d ago
Neither did you. If you had, you wouldn't have fallen for the user's weird re-writing of it. The original title actually better represents the article than this summary. I mean how do you completely leave this out: > In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.” > Ellison said that Anthropic used this data to devise an alternate route for the executive and funnel them to a service entrance at the hotel. “What could have been a high-stress situation,” he said, “was really mitigated through early detection through Samdesk and giving us that information.”

nerdyadventurer 7d ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUrshGwgDI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIUrshGwgDI