Ban the use of AI for mass surveillance

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Arguments for

Civil liberties and democracy

Proponents argue that AI-enabled mass surveillance is incompatible with democratic values and threatens privacy, freedom of speech and association, and constitutional protections. They say the danger is especially acute when governments can analyze people's data without warrants, transparency, or public accountability.

Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values.

Anthropic · Feb 26, 2026 · full quote
EFF opposes the use of generative AI for the purposes of mass government surveillance because that use supercharges unconstitutional violations of civil liberties and because government secrecy prevents the public and lawmakers from knowing when generative AI models make mistakes…

Matthew Guariglia · Jun 4, 2026 · full quote
Congress can start by passing the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a commonsense reform bill that bans the government from buying data that it would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. Congress must also impose basic guardrails on the government’s use of novel AI …

Ashley Gorski · Mar 9, 2026 · full quote
Federal agencies are sidestepping longstanding legal protections by buying vast amounts of personal data and using artificial intelligence to analyze it—without a warrant, without oversight, and without accountability. That is not how our system is supposed to work.

Raúl Torrez · Mar 24, 2026 · full quote
ICE and CBP agents are using facial recognition technologies to track, target, and surveil individuals across the country. The Trump administration isn't deploying these tools to maintain public safety. They are doing so to silence lawful speech and to punish dissent. I'm proud t…

Edward J. Markey · Feb 5, 2026 · full quote
ICE and CBP have trampled on our Constitution when they build databases of regular people concerned about ICE committing violence in their communities or scan the faces of people on the street to run through their surveillance systems. I'm glad to work with Senator Markey to prot…

Ron Wyden · Feb 5, 2026 · full quote

AI amplifies state power

Supporters contend that AI supercharges surveillance by lowering the cost of processing huge datasets, video, and purchased personal data and by enabling opaque algorithmic analysis at scale. In their view, this exponential expansion of surveillance power is outpacing existing law and oversight.

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 reduced the cost of processing huge…

Access Now · Jun 2020 · full quote
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.

Steve Feldstein · Mar 2, 2026 · full quote
Combining that data with the power of AI would expand the Pentagon’s surveillance powers exponentially, and companies like Anthropic are well within their rights to push back on that outcome.

Samir Jain · Mar 16, 2026 · full quote
The government wants to use AI to analyze Americans’ information obtained without a warrant through purchases from data brokers and “incidental” collection from foreign intelligence surveillance. Congress must act now and demand closures to these loopholes that undermine our Cons…

Jeramie D. Scott · Apr 14, 2026 · full quote
If we fail to act with urgency, we risk allowing our information space to be shaped not by democratic deliberation, but by opaque algorithms, foreign interference, and unaccountable private actors. The report makes this clear: AI systems depend on massive datasets, and the misuse…

Patrick Casey · Jun 24, 2026 · full quote
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 only because the law has not yet…

Dario Amodei · Feb 26, 2026 · full quote

Biometric monitoring crosses a line

Many supporters single out facial recognition and remote biometric identification in public spaces as the clearest example of AI mass surveillance. They argue these systems can scan everyone rather than only suspects and can normalize constant monitoring in public life, so they should be banned or tightly prohibited.

AI systems that pose a threat to people’s safety, rights or livelihoods are banned from use in the EU. The use of real-time remote biometric identification systems such as facial recognition by law enforcement authorities in public spaces is also prohibited, with some limited exc…

Council of the European Union · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
Live facial recognition is not just another camera on a street corner; it is a mass surveillance tool that can scan every face in a crowd, compare people in real time against a watch-list and permanently change what it feels like to stand in the public square.

Lord Strasburger · Mar 9, 2026 · full quote
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 recognition databases (like the…

European Parliament · 2021 · full quote
We will champion the report and call for governments and other stakeholders to implement its recommendations, including the need to strictly prohibit the use and transfer of surveillance technologies that fail to comply with international human rights law, as well as to ban the u…

ARTICLE 19 · Jun 15, 2026 · full quote
The government shall also prohibit AI companies from deploying AI-enabled social scoring and indiscriminate biometric mass surveillance in public spaces.

Government of Bangladesh · Feb 2026 · full quote

Bias and exclusion risks

Another line of argument is that biometric surveillance, predictive policing, and similar AI systems perpetuate discrimination, exclusion, and overpolicing, especially against marginalized communities. Proponents say these systems can criminalize people, rely on biased or stereotyped inferences, and undermine basic human rights protections.

Amnesty International’s own research has shown that the deployment of harmful technologies such as facial recognition and automation in the public sector have threatened the right to privacy and social protection in India and have led to discrimination and exclusion of marginaliz…

Erika Guevara Rosas · Feb 20, 2026 · full quote
Facial recognition should never be part of New Yorkers’ lives, least of all when they’re buying groceries or unlocking their front door. We’ve seen over and over how facial recognition perpetuates discrimination and systemic bias, and we’re proud to continue fighting for legislat…

Corinne Worthington · Mar 2, 2026 · full quote
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 and migrant communities. Thes…

Open Rights Group · Jul 26, 2024 · full quote
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 surveillance systems that have …

Matt Cagle · 2020 · full quote
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, and stereotyped outcomes and…

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) · 2023 · full quote
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. [...] Lawmakers must ban racist prof…

Mher Hakobyan · Jun 13, 2023 · full quote

Arguments against

Proactive crime control

This view holds that AI-enabled, near-constant state visibility can be an intentional goal in justice and policing. Its proponents argue that giving authorities the ability to watch more continuously could help them get ahead of criminals.

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. Similarly, in the world of pol…

Shabana Mahmood · 2026 · full quote

Deterrence and oversight

Another argument is that pervasive AI monitoring could continuously supervise police officers, automatically report problems, and encourage citizens to stay on their best behavior. In this account, constant observation is framed as a tool for accountability and order.

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

Larry Ellison · 2024 · full quote

Middle ground

Targeted uses with exceptions

Some supportive quotes do not reject every surveillance use of AI. They distinguish mass or indiscriminate surveillance from narrower uses backed by law, such as lawful foreign intelligence, monitoring of people suspected of a crime, or limited statutory exceptions.

Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values.

Anthropic · Feb 26, 2026 · full quote
AI systems that pose a threat to people’s safety, rights or livelihoods are banned from use in the EU. The use of real-time remote biometric identification systems such as facial recognition by law enforcement authorities in public spaces is also prohibited, with some limited exc…

Council of the European Union · Jun 29, 2026 · full quote
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 recognition databases (like the…

European Parliament · 2021 · full quote
AI may not be used to: • Conduct mass surveillance, facial recognition, or social scoring unless explicitly authorized by law and governing body.

Transportation Authority of Marin · Mar 9, 2026 · full quote

Human-rights red lines

Several speakers frame the issue as part of a broader human-rights-based AI regime: uses that cannot meet human rights standards should be prohibited, while other uses would be governed by binding rules and safeguards. This approach argues for enforceable red lines in law rather than relying on company policy alone.

We can and should implement red lines where AI cannot comply with human rights.

Zachary Lampell · Jul 7, 2026 · full quote
Governments should enact binding, enforceable and human rights-based regulation to govern AI systems, including a ban on the development and deployment of AI systems that are incompatible with international human rights law.

Amnesty International · Apr 2026 · full quote
AI systems that cannot meet human rights standards or that pose an unacceptable risk to human rights must be prohibited from use, transfer, or export.

Ben Saul · Jul 8, 2026 · full quote
The reason we chose fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance as the areas where we simply can't say yes is because the technology is so new that we do not believe the laws may be perfectly designed to account for how the technology could work.

Daniela Amodei · Jul 2, 2026 · full quote
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.

Max Tegmark · Feb 27, 2026 · full quote

Warrants and oversight

Another nuanced position centers on warrants, data-purchase limits, and oversight. These quotes emphasize closing loopholes that let the government buy or analyze data without judicial, legislative, or public scrutiny, implying that AI-enabled surveillance is especially objectionable when those constraints are absent.

Whether through the GSRA or another vehicle, Congress must work together to pair a reauthorization of the surveillance authority with warrant requirements.

Allie Maloney · Jun 24, 2026 · full quote
The government wants to use AI to analyze Americans’ information obtained without a warrant through purchases from data brokers and “incidental” collection from foreign intelligence surveillance. Congress must act now and demand closures to these loopholes that undermine our Cons…

Jeramie D. Scott · Apr 14, 2026 · full quote
Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general urging Congress to take immediate action to halt federal agencies’ use of commercially purchased data and artificial intelligence (AI) tools that enable mass surveillance of Americans without judicial, l…

Anthony G. Brown · Mar 25, 2026 · full quote
Federal agencies are sidestepping longstanding legal protections by buying vast amounts of personal data and using artificial intelligence to analyze it—without a warrant, without oversight, and without accountability. That is not how our system is supposed to work.

Raúl Torrez · Mar 24, 2026 · full quote
Congress can start by passing the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a commonsense reform bill that bans the government from buying data that it would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. Congress must also impose basic guardrails on the government’s use of novel AI …

Ashley Gorski · Mar 9, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Support for restrictions appears across elected officials, attorneys general, civil-liberties groups, AI companies, and international bodies in the quoted record.
A recurring distinction is between mass or indiscriminate domestic surveillance and narrower uses tied to lawful foreign intelligence, criminal suspicion, or limited legal exceptions.
Many quotes pair surveillance bans with separate red lines on autonomous weapons or other high-stakes military decisions, emphasizing human control.
Several supportive quotes focus less on surveillance in the abstract than on AI's ability to combine massive datasets, biometrics, and automated analysis at scale and sometimes without transparency.
The opposing quotes do not dispute AI's power; they frame that power as beneficial for constant supervision, deterrence, and getting ahead of crime.

The debate centers on whether AI-driven mass surveillance can coexist with privacy, rights, and democratic control or whether its scale and automation make it fundamentally abusive. Most quotes favor bans or hard legal red lines, often aimed at domestic, biometric, public-space, or otherwise indiscriminate uses, while the opposing case presents pervasive monitoring as useful for deterrence, supervision, and getting ahead of crime. A notable middle position supports strong prohibitions on mass surveillance while still allowing narrower, law-bound, or human-rights-compliant uses.

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Graciela Guzmán
Illinois State Senator.

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Congress must stop that cycle: abolish DHS, end federal data purchases that sidestep constitutional protections, hold corporations accountable, and protect states defending our people.
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Bruce Nestor
Attorney based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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The growth in surveillance technology and the use of artificial intelligence to augment that physical force pose a direct threat to our remaining democratic institutions and freedoms and require immediate action by Congress before the forces of repre...
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Jesse Franzblau
Associate Director of Policy at the National Immigrant Justice Center.

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Lawmakers must also act at the federal level, including by cutting funds for ICE or Border Patrol, and redirecting funds away from surveillance-related contracts and towards communities.
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Tania Unzueta
Political Director and co-founder of Mijente.

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Nearly ten years later, that same surveillance infrastructure is generating even greater profits. Palantir alone has received more than $1.8 billion in federal contracts since 2025, including a $1 billion DHS agreement that allows ICE and CBP to buy ...
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Paromita Shah
Executive Director of Just Futures Law.

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ICE and CBP are not only immigration policing agencies; they are also central pillars of the new security state with a rapidly expanding surveillance apparatus powered by AI-driven technologies, private contractors, and massive data-sharing systems.
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Delia C. Ramirez
U.S. Representative for Illinois's 3rd congressional district.

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As a Chicagoan, I know Black and Brown communities are no strangers to overpolicing, surveillance, and criminalization. And I have had a front row seat as the Trump administration has aggressively accelerated the use of technology and artificial inte...
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Henry C. "Hank" Johnson Jr.
U.S. Representative from Georgia; member of the House Judiciary Committee.

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Americans cannot afford gas, groceries, or healthcare, yet the Trump Administration and MAGA Republicans are pouring money into funding these mass surveillance tools used by ICE agents operating with impunity. It has got to stop. We must fight back.
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Alex Turner
AI safety researcher and former Google DeepMind research scientist.

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I resigned from Google DeepMind bc it broke its founding promise by selling AI to the military without restrictions against killer robots or mass spying. For months, I worked to stop this but watched powerful ethicists and institutions choose silenc...
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Bruce Schneier
Security technologist and author

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Now that we recognize the danger of AI-enhanced mass surveillance, we can make the policy choices not to implement it.
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Franco Giandana Di Gena
Policy analyst at Access Now.

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AI tools are supercharging surveillance and suppression of protesters, journalists, human rights defenders, and other communities at risk. We therefore echo calls for the adoption of human rights-centered binding legal standards and global governance...
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Zachary Lampell
Senior Legal Advisor and Coordinator of the Digital Rights Program at the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law.

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We can and should implement red lines where AI cannot comply with human rights.
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International Center for Not-for-Profit Law
International legal organization working on civil society, digital rights, and the rule of law.

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We can and should implement red lines where AI cannot comply with human rights.
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Daniela Amodei
President and co-founder of Anthropic.

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The reason we chose fully autonomous weapons and mass domestic surveillance as the areas where we simply can't say yes is because the technology is so new that we do not believe the laws may be perfectly designed to account for how the technology cou...
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EU Council of governments

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AI systems that pose a threat to people’s safety, rights or livelihoods are banned from use in the EU. The use of real-time remote biometric identification systems such as facial recognition by law enforcement authorities in public spaces is also pro...
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Allie Maloney
Policy Analyst at Americans for Responsible Innovation; former Scoville Peace Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.

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Whether through the GSRA or another vehicle, Congress must work together to pair a reauthorization of the surveillance authority with warrant requirements.
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Patrick Casey
Irish parliamentarian; member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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If we fail to act with urgency, we risk allowing our information space to be shaped not by democratic deliberation, but by opaque algorithms, foreign interference, and unaccountable private actors. The report makes this clear: AI systems depend on ma...
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Free expression and human rights organisation

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We will champion the report and call for governments and other stakeholders to implement its recommendations, including the need to strictly prohibit the use and transfer of surveillance technologies that fail to comply with international human right...
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Human Rights Watch
Global human rights advocacy organization

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The risk of privacy violations is notable, as AI systems deployed in military use cases are often “dual use” and developed and deployed in non-military settings where widespread and indiscriminate data collection may constitute mass surveillance, whi...
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Office of Senator Chris Coons
Official office of U.S. Senator Chris Coons of Delaware.

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The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Defense Act would require AI-enabled autonomous systems to be deployed in a way that ensures human operators are able to control, monitor, detect unintended behavior, and manually disengage or deactivate any de...
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Matthew Guariglia
EFF activism director

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EFF opposes the use of generative AI for the purposes of mass government surveillance because that use supercharges unconstitutional violations of civil liberties and because government secrecy prevents the public and lawmakers from knowing when gene...
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Kirsten Gillibrand
U.S. Senator from New York; member of the Senate Armed Services and Intelligence Committees

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The most critical decisions affecting our national security and the lives of our service members must always be made by human beings, not unaccountable machines. Right now, the Pentagon is moving toward deploying incredibly powerful AI technology wit...
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Sara B. Gero
Amnesty International Netherlands contributor writing on AI-enabled repression and human rights.

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Some forms of AI surveillance must be banned altogether, including highly invasive spyware.
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Jeramie D. Scott
Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center's Surveillance Oversight Program.

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The government wants to use AI to analyze Americans’ information obtained without a warrant through purchases from data brokers and “incidental” collection from foreign intelligence surveillance. Congress must act now and demand closures to these loo...
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Amnesty International
Human rights NGO

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Governments should enact binding, enforceable and human rights-based regulation to govern AI systems, including a ban on the development and deployment of AI systems that are incompatible with international human rights law.
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Amazon Employees for Climate Justice
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We are calling on our leaders and fellow workers in the tech industry to urge Congress to enact privacy protections, specifically closing the data broker loophole that allows the government to buy mass surveillance from data brokers, and ban AI use f...
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William Tong
Attorney General of Connecticut.

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Big Tech has built a massive surveillance economy to track, package and sell deeply detailed information about our movements, purchases, preferences, and relationships. Now, out of control federal agencies are buying this data to evade constitutional...
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Anthony G. Brown
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Attorney General Anthony G. Brown joined a coalition of 17 attorneys general urging Congress to take immediate action to halt federal agencies’ use of commercially purchased data and artificial intelligence (AI) tools that enable mass surveillance of...
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Rob Bonta
California attorney general

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I urge Congress to take action now and limit the ability of the federal government to deploy mass surveillance on Americans.
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Raúl Torrez
Attorney General of New Mexico.

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Federal agencies are sidestepping longstanding legal protections by buying vast amounts of personal data and using artificial intelligence to analyze it—without a warrant, without oversight, and without accountability. That is not how our system is s...
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Elizabeth Warren
U.S. Senator (D-MA)

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I am concerned that the terms of this agreement may permit the Trump Administration to use OpenAI’s technology to conduct mass surveillance of Americans and build lethal autonomous weapons that could harm civilians with little to no human oversight.
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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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Samir Jain
Vice President of Policy at the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)

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Combining that data with the power of AI would expand the Pentagon’s surveillance powers exponentially, and companies like Anthropic are well within their rights to push back on that outcome.
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Patrick Toomey
Deputy director of the ACLU National Security Project.

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AI-powered surveillance poses immense dangers to our democracy. Anthropic’s public advocacy for AI guardrails is laudable and protected by the First Amendment — not something the Pentagon should be punishing.
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Microsoft
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Microsoft also believes that American AI should not be used to conduct domestic mass surveillance or start a war without human control.
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Ashley Gorski
Senior staff attorney with the ACLU National Security Project.

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Congress can start by passing the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, a commonsense reform bill that bans the government from buying data that it would otherwise need a warrant to obtain. Congress must also impose basic guardrails on the...
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Transportation Authority of Marin
California transportation agency serving Marin County.

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AI may not be used to: • Conduct mass surveillance, facial recognition, or social scoring unless explicitly authorized by law and governing body.
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Lord Strasburger
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Live facial recognition is not just another camera on a street corner; it is a mass surveillance tool that can scan every face in a crowd, compare people in real time against a watch-list and permanently change what it feels like to stand in the publ...
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Baroness Doocey
Liberal Democrat life peer in the UK House of Lords and advocate for civil liberties and privacy safeguards.

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We must ensure that Parliament, not oblique algorithms, decides the limit of state power.
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Privacy International
UK privacy and digital rights NGO.

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Mass surveillance is wrong.
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Steve Feldstein
Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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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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Corinne Worthington
Advocacy and Community Engagement Manager at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP); New York privacy and surveillance policy advocate.

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Facial recognition should never be part of New Yorkers’ lives, least of all when they’re buying groceries or unlocking their front door. We’ve seen over and over how facial recognition perpetuates discrimination and systemic bias, and we’re proud to ...
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OpenAI
AI research organization

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No use of OpenAI technology for mass domestic surveillance.
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Alejandra Montoya-Boyer
Civil-rights and technology policy leader

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As civil rights advocates, we have and will always stand against mass domestic surveillance and technology weaponized against our communities, especially those historically overpoliced and wrongfully targeted by the government.
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Greg Casar
U.S. Representative from Texas; Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus

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This is a flashing red siren for anyone who cares about keeping America safe and free. The Trump administration wants to use A.I. to spy on Americans without a warrant and to give A.I. power to make life and death decisions without humans involved. T...
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Max Tegmark
Physicist, AI Researcher

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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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Zoe Lofgren
U.S. Representative from California's 18th district; Ranking Member of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee

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Any freedom loving American can appreciate Anthropic's attempts to prevent the DOD from using its AI model for mass surveillance of Americans.
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Hakeem Jeffries
U.S. Representative from New York and House Democratic Leader.

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Donald Trump and the Department of Defense want to use powerful artificial intelligence technology to spy on American citizens through mass surveillance. Anthropic, a leading American company, has courageously pushed back against this shocking invasi...
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Sean Parnell
Pentagon chief spokesperson in 2026.

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The military has no interest in using AI to conduct mass surveillance of Americans (which is illegal) nor do we want to use AI to develop autonomous weapons that operate without human involvement.
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Anthropic
AI safety research company

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Mass domestic surveillance. We support the use of AI for lawful foreign intelligence and counterintelligence missions. But using these systems for mass domestic surveillance is incompatible with democratic values.
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Valerie Foushee
U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district; sponsor of the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act

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I firmly object to any effort by the Administration to strong-arm AI companies into enabling mass surveillance or developing weapons that operate without meaningful human control. These uses threaten civil liberties and human rights at home and aroun...
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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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Erika Guevara Rosas
Senior Director of Research, Advocacy Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International

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Amnesty International’s own research has shown that the deployment of harmful technologies such as facial recognition and automation in the public sector have threatened the right to privacy and social protection in India and have led to discriminati...
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Jenna Ruddock
Advocacy Director at Free Press Action, focused on civil liberties and surveillance technology.

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Biometric surveillance poses an urgent threat to our fundamental rights. Facial recognition and other biometric surveillance technologies have been used by authoritarian regimes around the world to target journalists, protestors, and marginalized com...
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India McKinney
EFF Director of Federal Affairs

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It’s past time for the federal government to end its use of this abusive surveillance technology. A great place to start is its use for immigration enforcement, given ICE and CBP’s utter disdain for the law. Face surveillance in the hands of the gove...
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Lia Holland
Fight for the Future campaigns director

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Facial recognition creates a broad, warrantless hoard of surveillance data that can instantly be weaponized for intimidation and oppression. It has no place in a free society and we will continue to fight to see it banned in every arena.
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Edward J. Markey
U.S. Senator from Massachusetts

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Without oversight, this technology is dangerous in the hands of any government, and the Trump Administration is abusing it to trample on privacy, freedom of speech, and civil liberties.
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Jeff Merkley
U.S. Senator from Oregon

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For years, I’ve been ringing the alarm bells about the dangers of a national surveillance state built on facial recognition technology. Now, we’re seeing Trump’s lawless federal agents deploy this technology on our streets across the nation as he tri...
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Pramila Jayapal
U.S. Representative (D-WA)

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We are at an incredibly dangerous moment in this country, where overzealous and overly violent ICE and Border Patrol agents are increasing their use of biometric identification systems. This has become a surveillance state with militarized federal tr...
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Ron Wyden
U.S. Senator from Oregon, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee; longtime advocate for healthcare and technology policy

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ICE and CBP have trampled on our Constitution when they build databases of regular people concerned about ICE committing violence in their communities or scan the faces of people on the street to run through their surveillance systems. I'm glad to wo...
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Government of Bangladesh
National government of Bangladesh, speaking through its delegation at the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance in July 2026.

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The government shall also prohibit AI companies from deploying AI-enabled social scoring and indiscriminate biometric mass surveillance in public spaces.
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Henry Garrido
Executive Director of District Council 37, New York City's largest public employee union.

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It must prevent the use of AI for surveillance.
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Fight for the Future
Digital-rights advocacy organization campaigning against surveillance technologies and for online civil liberties.

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Our demand of lawmakers at the city, state, and federal levels is to address CBP’s and others’ illegal access to this surveillance network and to ban AI surveillance tech.
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Adam Schiff
U.S. Senator from California; former House Intelligence Committee chair

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There are good reasons to use AI technology to advance our national security, however — just as with any tool, we cannot depend on technology alone to guide us, particularly when the risks of harm can be fatal. My legislation would [...] ensure that ...
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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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Open Rights Group
Digital rights advocacy group

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ben Saul
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.

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AI systems that cannot meet human rights standards or that pose an unacceptable risk to human rights must be prohibited from use, transfer, or export.
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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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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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Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (S.T.O.P.)
New York-based privacy and civil-rights organization advocating limits on surveillance technology.

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The civil rights group renewed its call on the City Council and the New York State Legislature to ban facial recognition and other invasive, biased forms of biometric surveillance.
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We Will Not Be Divided
Named 2026 open letter by Google and OpenAI employees opposing domestic AI mass surveillance and autonomous killing without human oversight.

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We hope our leaders will put aside their differences and stand together to continue to refuse the Department of War's current demands for permission to use our models for domestic mass surveillance and autonomously killing people without human oversi...
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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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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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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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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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