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FBI seeks AI for political watch list

By August 9, 2026No Comments

Source: Daniel Boguslaw on Reason —

Documents show the FBI seeking AI tools to flag Americans before they act, as the terror watch list’s focus moves toward domestic dissent.

 

The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.

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