Hacker News Reader

> Anthropic's position was categorical: no mass surveillance, full stop.

It was "[No] mass domestic surveillance of Americans"

It's far more narrow a restriction than you seem to imply. For example, mass domestic surveillance of non-Americans seems okay.

View on HN

That's right. From outside the US Anthropic looks every bit as threatening as any other AI company.

No mass domestic surveillance of citizens is an old trick also. Country A doesn't surveil their citizens and Country B doesn't do theirs. But then they set up the infrastructure and both surveil each other's citizens and then exchange information. Then when they have all the infrastructure, it would be almost a crime to not use it to catch criminals. I mean, think of the children...

Reply on news.ycombinator.com