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404 Media and The Intercept have published a live-recorded conversation on how AI is used to watch people and wage war. Jason Koebler joined The Intercept's Sam Biddle and Akela Lacy in Los Angeles on 12 September for an episode of The Intercept Briefing, and a full transcript sits alongside the audio.
Why it mattersPer the episode description, the discussion covers AI's role in empowering private surveillance companies that filter data to the government, AI in war, and the prospect of an AI apocalypse. The surveillance theme is the least cinematic of the three, and the one where the machinery sits inside private companies on its way to the state. For readers tracking AI accountability, it is an hour from two outlets that specialise in this exact ground, and the transcript spares anyone who would rather read than listen.
Discuss: Doom gets the headlines, but private surveillance firms filtering data for governments is the AI use that already exists. Should the accountability debate spend more of its energy on that pipeline than on prophecy?
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