Persistently surveilling an entire population across a huge number of data points to inform "hundreds of thousands of features" including location, social media use, etc. takes a massive amount of infra. And I don't buy, given the nature of the known IDF cloud contracts and the
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Organizing for AI: Moving Beyond Requests to Action
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Some of us have been saying this for years! And it's one of the reasons we chose to organize, not entreat.
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Surveillance Data Collection Infrastructure Cloud AI Systems
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Yeah, and even if that is the case the surveillance/process that facilitates data collection across entires populations, that become inputs/training for this system, likely run on some cloud. And thus IMO cannot be divorced from this system.
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Data inseparable from technical systems creating using it
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Data, in this case, is not extricable from the technical systems that create and 'use' it.
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Cloud Contracts Enabling Mass Population Surveillance Systems
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Yes, definitely. And what cloud/vendor contracts might be hosting/facilitating the surveillance that enables access to such data across an entire population?
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Israeli Military Cloud Infrastructure and US Tech Company Contracts
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Most things run on clouds these day. And the Israeli military has a number of known cloud contracts w/US companies. The claim isn't that it requires it in some fundamental sense.
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Secure Cloud Infrastructure for US Government: OS Libraries Analysis
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Interesting. A lot of cloud cos offer "secure" clouds designed for "sensitive" uses, which Google was racing through FedRamp authorization to offer to USG/DOD when I was there. Given that you seem to have close knowledge, what OS libraries would you assume they're using? What
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AI is a marketing term not technical terminology
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"AI" is whatever people call "AI". It's a marketing term, not a technical term of art.
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Understanding key questions about AI and major players
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I think this is a really important set of questions to answer in order to understand exactly what (and whom) we're dealing with. If anyone has any pointers I'd be grateful for the education.
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Tech Worker Ethics and Organized Opposition Movements
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I don't understand the point of this comment, except to be dismissive of urgently needed opposition based on its lack of novelty. The long history of ethical organizing among tech workers is important and something we learned from and were fortified by. And something I touched