AI excels at pattern extraction and surveillance thrives on patterns. Put the two together and you get a feedback loop of ever-cheaper, ever-wider watching. Governments eye social-control leverage, firms chase ad revenue, and users lose bargaining power. Darrell West calls it “a risky time for AI-based monitoring” because advanced models, cheap sensors,…
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