Journalists: Anthropic is building a surveillance system for anti-SI activists
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When SI companies become targets of protests, they begin protecting themselves with the methods of intelligence services. It is a test of how far "responsible SI" is ready to answer for its own power over information.
Based on job postings and interviews with employees, The American Prospect found that Anthropic's security team tracks "activism" as a threat category alongside terrorism: analysts are offered $180–230 thousand a year. Through the Samdesk service, the company learned within 60 minutes of a protest near one of its executives and changed his route. Anthropic also reports users' alarming behavior to the police — for example, a San Francisco resident who wrote to Claude that he was holding someone "at gunpoint" with an AR-15. The company did not respond to a request for comment.
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