by Leo Hohmann, Leo’s Newsletter:
They’re monitoring everything… they’re watching you but who is watching the watchers?
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has called for a “global pause in AI development” to address safety concerns regarding the rapid advancement of AI systems. He expressed a concern that these systems may soon be capable of self-improvement without human oversight. He calls it “beyond human AI.”
Anthropic owns the AI chatbot system known as Claude.
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The fear is that AIs will soon be able learn to rewrite their own code. They would be able to generate new knowledge, as opposed to just mimicking human knowledge, and act on their own. In short, they will no longer be under human control.
Mr. Amodei has stated:
“Humanity is about to be handed almost unimaginable power, and it is deeply unclear whether [we] possess the maturity to wield it.”
Anthropic is proposing that the world’s top artificial intelligence companies come up with a coordinated way to pause development of advanced AI systems, or risk losing control.
I don’t know about you, but this has the look and feel of a psyop, meant to convince the masses that someone in the AI industry actually cares about their disappearing jobs, privacy, and basic human value. Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse: What so-called safeguards would these technocratic elites possibly offer that would truly put the AI genie back in the bottle?
In the meantime, we are watching our civil liberties, once guaranteed by the Constitution and Bill of Rights, being systematically deconstructed by governments that outsource their tyranny to private corporations. The corporate titans then boast that they, unlike the government, are not bound by any constitutional restraints.
As of the end of 2025, the Atlanta-based surveillance firm Flock Safety said it has contracts with local governments in more than 5,000 communities across 49 states, and performs over 20 billion scans of vehicles in the U.S. every month. Flock’s network consists of cameras, facial-image recognition software, and machine learning, which shares data with police departments nationwide.
According to the Intercept, “The company’s ‘vehicle fingerprint’ technology goes beyond traditional models, capturing not only license plate numbers, but also the state, vehicle type, make, color, missing and covered plates, bumper stickers, decals, and roof racks.”
All of it is powered by AI and the level of surveillance will only continue to ramp up as thousands of new AI data centers come online across the country over the next couple of years.
There is almost nowhere you can go that you aren’t being watched. And, as I reported earlier this year, these Flock cameras are listening too. And this doesn’t even include all the other ways that you are being monitored in life under America’s burgeoning technocracy. Your spending habits, your travel habits, your eating habits, your health, and even your political opinions are all being surveilled and stored for later use by nameless, faceless overlords armed with ever-expanding algorithms. Once it’s collected, almost all of your data can be parceled out for profit to whoever is willing to pay for it.
