AI surveillance is being supercharged – and it will chill social progress | Bruce Schneier and Jon Penney
2026-07-11 14:10 UTC
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@stopdropandprole@lemmy.world 2026-07-11 16:38
Consider the relatively recent societal normalization of same-sex relationships and the recreational use of marijuana. Over the decades, those ideas slowly progressed from being both immoral and illegal, to moral but still illegal, and finally to both moral and legal. But in order for any of that to happen, there had to be a counterculture that was able to experiment and eventually demonstrate to the world that morality could change over time. To the extent that AI surveillance chills this sort of experimentation in public or in private, social progress becomes impossible.
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@quick_snail@feddit.nl 2026-07-12 03:14
And if we do something wrong – shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it – the system will notice, retain it, tie it to your official government record, communicate that fact to you, and provide real-time alerts to any relevant authorities … and maybe also to the general public. No, it won’t. It will confuse you with others and others with you. So, sure, it’ll have a rap sheet of all the times it thinks you did something bad, but many of the entries in this system will be surveillance of other people misattributed to you