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The resulting policy vacuum—expensively procured by the commercial surveillance industry—has been filled with every manner of grotesque, easily weaponized spying.
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Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens
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Disputed The provided Bookshop URL is a real product page for Cory Doctorow’s The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI (publish date June 23, 2026), but that page does not contain the quoted sentence: searches on the page for “policy vacuum,” “commercial surveillance industry,” and “weaponized spying” return no matches. I also checked Macmillan’s official book page/excerpt and Google Books metadata for this title, and neither shows the sentence; an exact web search for the full line returned no results. So I cannot confirm this as a real, verbatim Doctorow quote, and the stored source URL is wrong. ([bookshop.org](https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-reverse-centaur-s-guide-to-life-after-ai-how-to-think-about-artificial-intelligence-before-it-s-too-late-cory-doctorow/ac86987834ee96c2)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 2h ago
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