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Steve Feldstein

Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

We're at a point right now where neither having the Pentagon write the rules, whatever those might be, nor having a company, even one as presumably as well intentioned as Anthropic, making decisions about this is a particularly good place to be as a democracy.

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Steve Feldstein, quoted in Axios, “AI’s mass surveillance problem,” March 2, 2026.

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AI value alignment must be subject to public deliberation, not decided by developers alone

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Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

The idea of surveillance that overreaches legal mandates has been an ongoing concern, but with AI, it gets supercharged. It happens at scale, and I think updated rules are needed.

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