alt Hacker NewsThe next question, what person wants to send all their personal questions to an AI lab that will help the government do domestic surveillance
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bickfordb • today at 3:50 AM
This shouldn't be understated.
Also, implicit in the government's requirements is that they require mass domestic surveillance capabilities. Imagine a large government tool that for each citizen there is an antagonist OpenClaw-like set of agents surveilling and potentially acting against every public interaction and occasionally hallucinating.
mekdoonggi • yesterday at 9:17 PM
The same type of people who would upload a picture of their "friends" and tell the AI to "roast" them or take off their clothes.
You could ask this about every user of every large cloud service provider, which is why they all refuses to implement E2E, or store the keys [4].
The government has their hands in all of them, using "national security" as the justification, with threats if they don't comply [1][2], with the alternative being to shut down [3].
Does it prevent harm? Probably.
[1] https://sg.news.yahoo.com/yahoo-ceo-fears-defying-nsa-could-...
[2] https://lieu.house.gov/media-center/in-the-news/report-yahoo...
[3] https://www.crn.com/news/security/240159745/two-email-provid...
[4] https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/01/22/micro...