Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

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  Dario Amodei

  CEO at Anthropic

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  But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values. AI-driven mass surveillance presents serious, novel risks to our fundamental liberties. To the extent that such surveillance is currently legal, this is on...

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  Elissa Slotkin

  U.S. Senator from Michigan; former CIA analyst and Pentagon official; member of the Senate Armed Services Committee

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  My bill ensures a human is involved when deadly autonomous weapons are fired, AI cannot be used to spy on the American people, and that a human is on the switch to launch nuclear weapons.

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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  We have long believed that AI should not be used for mass surveillance or autonomous lethal weapons, and that humans should remain in the loop for high-stakes automated decisions.

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  Mher Hakobyan

  Amnesty AI regulation advocacy advisor.

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  There is a risk the European Parliament may upend considerable human rights protections reached during the committee vote on May 11, opening the door for the use of technologies which are in direct conflict with international human rights law. [...] ...

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  Daniel Therrien

  Privacy Commissioner of Canada (2014–2022)

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  Clearview sells a facial recognition tool that allows law enforcement and commercial organizations to match photographs of unknown people against a massive databank of 3 billion images, scraped from the Internet. The vast majority of these people hav...

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  European Parliament

  EU legislative body

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  votes For and says:

  To respect privacy and human dignity, MEPs ask for a permanent ban on the automated recognition of individuals in public spaces, noting that citizens should only be monitored when suspected of a crime. Parliament calls for the use of private facial r...

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  Access Now

  defends and extends digital rights

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  votes For and says:

  Perhaps the greatest threat posed by technologies that fall under the umbrella of artificial intelligence comes from their ability to facilitate the mass surveillance of populations. Advances in machine learning in particular have significantly reduc...

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  Matt Cagle

  ACLU tech and civil liberties attorney

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  As Santa Cruz rightly recognized, predictive policing and facial recognition are dangerous, racially biased technologies that should never be used by our government. [...] Lawmakers across the country have a responsibility to step up and dismantle s...

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  American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

  US civil liberties advocacy organization

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  The ACLU is calling on U.S. policymakers to contend with the technology’s enormous power, prohibit its use for mass surveillance [...].

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  United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism

  UN expert on counter-terrorism, human rights

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  Indiscriminate AI-powered mass surveillance of the population must be prohibited.

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  Dragoș Tudorache

  MEP; EU AI Act co-rapporteur

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  We don't want mass surveillance, we don't want social scoring, we don't want predictive policing in the European Union, full stop.

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  Marcel Kolaja

  Czech digital rights activist; former MEP

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  I propose to ban deployment of such technologies without exceptions.

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  UNESCO

  UN agency for education, science, culture

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  It bans as invasive the use of AI systems for social scoring and mass surveillance.

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  Ylva Johansson

  EU Commissioner for Home Affairs

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  there is no room for mass surveillance in our society. Our proposal bans mass social scoring [...]

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  Meredith Whittaker

  Signal President; AI policy advocate

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  The deeper integration of AI agents into devices is pretty perilous for encrypted services because they require access to huge amounts of data stored in various apps. [...] It threatens to break the blood-brain barrier between the application layer a...

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  Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)

  UN human rights office

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  votes For and says:

  The use of emotion recognition technologies, such as polygraphs, to try to infer how a person feels, what they think, or the veracity of what they are saying, is not only technologically flawed but also highly likely to result in discriminatory, bias...

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  Wojciech Rafał Wiewiórowski

  European Data Protection Supervisor

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  The EDPS also welcomes the inclusion in the convention, among the definitions to be provided, of the notion of “AI subject” and, in connection with this definition, he inclusion of procedural safeguards and rights for “AI subjects” (namely, persons a...

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  Open Rights Group

  Digital rights advocacy group

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  votes For and says:

  Many AI systems have been proven to magnify discrimination and inequality. In particular, so-called ‘predictive policing’ and biometric surveillance systems are disproportionately used to target marginalised groups including racialised, working class...

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  Shabana Mahmood

  UK Home Secretary; Labour MP for Birmingham Ladywood; former Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary

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  When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times. ...

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  Larry Ellison

  Oracle co-founder and chairman

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  votes Against and says:

  Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times [...] AI will report that problem [...] Citizens will be on their best behavior

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