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Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?
Publisher description: The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s collection of bulk…
MIT Technology Review | Mar 6, 2026 | Michelle Kim
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Meanwhile, OpenAI, the rival AI company behind ChatGPT, sealed a deal that allowed the Pentagon to use its AI for “all lawful purposes”—language that critics say left the door open to domestic surveillance. Does the law allow the Pentagon to surveil Americans using AI? So is information on Americans picked up incidentally from surveillance of foreign nationals.
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