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Comment by Max Tegmark
Physicist, AI Researcher
Fully autonomous weapons systems and Orwellian AI-enabled domestic mass surveillance are affronts to our dignity and liberty. [...] Domestic mass surveillance of US citizens is a red line that should never be crossed. [...] Our safety and basic rights must not be at the mercy of a company's internal policy; lawmakers must work to codify these overwhelmingly popular red lines into law.
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(2026)
1mo ago
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AI Verified
Source_url (futureoflife.org) returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch, but I confirmed the quote verbatim via web search. Max Tegmark's statement on the Department of War's ultimatum (to Anthropic) contains: "Fully autonomous weapons systems and Orwellian AI-enabled domestic mass surveillance are affronts to our dignity and liberty," "Domestic mass surveillance of US citizens is a red line that should never be crossed," and "our safety and basic rights must not be at the mercy of a company's internal policy; lawmakers must work to codify these overwhelmingly popular red lines into law." Author attribution (Max Tegmark, Physicist, AI Researcher; FLI Founder/Chair) is correct. Year 2026 is correct. Vote "for" correctly aligns with statement #406 ("Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens") — the quote explicitly calls domestic mass AI surveillance a red line that should be codified into law as a ban.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 14d ago
replying to Max Tegmark