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# The Internet Enabled Mass Surveillance. AI Will Enable Mass Spying.
- URL: https://werd.io/the-internet-enabled-mass-surveillance-ai-will-enable-mass-spying/
- Published: 2023-12-05T14:04:21.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-05T14:04:21.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

Bruce Schneier on the inevitable application of AI to mass surveillance:

"Knowing that they are under constant surveillance changes how people behave. They conform. They self-censor, with the chilling effects that brings. Surveillance facilitates social control, and spying will only make this worse. Governments around the world already use mass surveillance; they will engage in mass spying as well."

I find this argument that AI can enable mass summarization and classification, and therefore more effective use of surveillance data at scale, very compelling. If governments can do something, as a general rule, they will. And this feels like something that is definitely coming down the pipe. [#AI](https://werd.io/tag/AI)

\[[Link](https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/the-internet-enabled-mass-surveillance-ai-will-enable-mass-spying.html)\]