Federal intelligence agencies and domestic law enforcement are circulating reports identifying anti-technology extremists as a new domestic target. Unpublished materials from the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and fusion centers indicate a national shift toward surveilling a broad category of people and activities. The effort follows directives that instruct the Department of Justice to target individuals holding anti-American, anti-Christian, and anti-capitalism beliefs, alongside a counterterrorism strategy that prioritizes left-wing extremists. Together, these directives are described as using domestic surveillance to monitor and criminalize speech and assembly that challenges White House ideology. Additional documents warn that AI adoption could create chaotic conditions, fueling large-scale protests that may devolve into civil unrest and anti-tech violence.
"More than 1,000 pages of unpublished reports from the Department of Homeland Security, FBI, and fusion centers obtained by WIRED show a national shift taking place to surveil this new and worryingly broad category of people and activities deemed an emerging threat."
"Taken together, these Trump administration directives have commandeered the domestic surveillance apparatus to surveil and criminalize speech and assembly that challenges the ideology of the White House. A new focus on anti-technology extremism adds an unreported category to already public designations under a presidency that has heavily invested political and material capital in AI and data center proliferation."
"Among the documents in the tranche obtained by WIRED is a New York Intelligence and Counterterrorism Bureau report that warns of widespread upheaval in response to AI adoption. Of particular note is a novel term for what the bureau purports to be an emerging extremism threat."
""The chaotic atmosphere that may result from emergent AI technology in the next five years may fuel large-scale protests that devolve into civil unrest and anti-tech violen"
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