Yes and no. AI may be used things like facial recognition. But the only people who may be targeted are cataegories of people such as criminals or card counters that venture into a casino. I think that a bigger problem is that it makes people intellectually lazy, as all your questions are answered on google or chat gpt. It removes the need for critical thinking, and turns us into boring slobs.

So, please resist using chat gpt as much as you can. Go outside, or read a book whenever you can.

AI is a dream come true for the surveillance state. Automated facial recognition tied into CCTV cameras everywhere. No need to implant people with chips, AI will only get better at identifying people in many different ways, voice, gait, posture. Next to using AI to check everyone's social footprint and assign a threat level, just like Lavender AI selects targets in Gaza. So far Lavender AI has killed or injured over 50,000 children in Gaza.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-authoritarian-risks-of-ai-surveillance

And evidence will become useless with deep fakes getting better all the time. It will be easier than ever to 'plant' evidence. Video / voice recording evidence will be less reliable than eye witness accounts.

It's really the people that use AI who can't be trusted, rather than AI taking over the world. And it's the people that can't be trusted who have the funds to invest in and direct AI. Does anyone trust anything good will come out of this...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/05/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-secures-historic-600-billion-investment-commitment-in-saudi-arabia/

Saudi Arabian DataVolt is moving forward with plans to invest $20 billion in AI data centers and energy infrastructure in the United States.

Imagine the German Stasi having had AI as a tool...

Indeed. With AI the internet also can't be trusted anymore (for so far it could be trusted). For humans it might be impossible to change all the information on the web, AI will soon be able to if not already. AI can literally rewrite history on the web.

https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/ai-and-holocaust-rewriting-history-impact-artificial-intelligence-understanding-holocaust

https://americanedgeproject.org/china-could-literally-rewrite-history-using-ai-and-control-the-future/

Are there any AI trainers, or other professionals here? What do you do and where do you work?

"Empire of AI": Karen Hao on How AI Is Threatening Democracy & Creating a New Colonial World

In our July Fourth special broadcast, we revisit our interview with longtime technology reporter Karen Hao, author of the new book Empire of AI, which explores the accruing political and economic power of AI companies — especially Sam Altman's OpenAI.

Her reporting uncovered the exploitation of workers in Kenya, attempts to take massive amounts of freshwater from communities in Chile, along with numerous accounts of the technology's detrimental impact on the environment. "This is an extraordinary type of AI development that is causing a lot of social, labor and environmental harms," says Hao, in an extended interview.