Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens

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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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  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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  Passing FISA 702 without strong new guardrails, while doing nothing to stop the government from buying Americans' location data and feeding it into AI systems to conduct unprecedented mass surveillance, would be shocking negligence.

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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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  Congress is behind in putting left and right limits on the use of AI, and the first place to start should be at the Pentagon [...] My bill ensures a human is involved when deadly autonomous weapons are fired, AI cannot be used to spy on the American ...

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  Max Tegmark

  Physicist, AI Researcher

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  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 right...

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  Zoë Garbett

  London Assembly Member, Green Party

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  I am not opposed to technology. From my time working in the NHS, I know how transformative advances in technology can be – they can legitimately be lifesaving – but advances in technology cannot be allowed to undermine our rights and our civil libert...

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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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  Ayanna Pressley

  U.S. Representative, Massachusetts

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  By passing this bill, we can prevent government agencies from using this faulty technology [...] our government has no business spying on its civilians.

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  Patrick Breyer

  Member of European Parliament, Pirate Party

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  „This proposal would justify the permanent and ubiquitious deployment of face surveillance to look for the thousands of ‚victims‘, ‚threats‘ and suspects of ‚serious crime‘ that are wanted at any time. We need to prevent a China-style dystopian futur...

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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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  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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  Sam Altman

  CEO at OpenAI

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  Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, ...

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  Electronic Frontier Foundation

  We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online.

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  Face recognition is one of the most intrusive of all surveillance technologies. There are already numerous instances of law enforcement using this technology to misidentify and arrest innocent people. Now, immigration officers are harassing people on...

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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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  European Parliament

  EU legislative body

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  MEPs worry that the use of AI systems in policing could potentially lead to mass surveillance, breaching key EU principles of proportionality and necessity. [...] They demand a permanent ban on the use of biometric details like gait, fingerprints, DN...

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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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  The People’s Plan NYC

  NYC multi‑group policy platform

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  Problem: Predictive policing is software that is sold to the public as a way for police to “predict crime.” In practice, this software automates racial profiling, harvesting data from sources like the gang databases, which is 99 percent Black and Lat...

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  Evan Greer

  Fight for the Future director

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  Facial recognition surveillance should be banned everywhere, but keeping it out of public housing is an excellent start, [...] This type of invasive surveillance technology is often tested on, and disproportionately used to target poor people and peo...

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  Meredith Whittaker

  Signal President; AI policy advocate

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  We have seen abuse of surveillance powers throughout history, but we have never seen surveillance powers that are as pervasive as what large tech companies have today. [...] Scanning private messages for criminal behaviour could begin to extend into ...

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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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