Anthropic Is Building AI to Predict Which Activists Police Should Watch. SF-based AI lab pays up to $230,000 for intelligence analysts who formally categorize activism as a threat alongside terrorism and nation-state attacks

Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, has a theory about why people distrust AI companies. “Ordinary people don’t trust companies, governments, or the tech industry,” he said recently, “and always suspect that we are cooking up some new way to screw them over.” He’s right about the distrust. What he left out: Anthropic has reportedly built a predictive security operation that formally classifies those sk...