The rest of the lawmakers are salivating, unfortunately.
this post was submitted on 26 Apr 2026
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Not just the government
As much as I hate AI, and love a good SkyNet joke:
It's not AI itself doing this, it's the stuff it's used for. Agentic AI, Palantir, yadda yadda.
And the delibrately slackened (as they weren't slack enough already) regulations around it in the USA.
This is the kind of headline which will be studied in the future when they're trying to answer the question of how things got so bad
I imagine that "lawmakers" are going to find themselves more scrutinized, more surveilled than anyone else, because extorting them for information, favors, bribes and so forth will be much, much more lucrative than trying the same thing with nobodies like you and me.
This is an informal way of transferring state power from the people to "the cops," in the broadest sense of that term. It's the logic of the Mafia: If you have something on everyone, you have more opportunities to act through unwilling intermediaries.
But ultimately it's an informal way of transferring state power from the people to the companies owning the technologies.
I think it's pretty clear laws won't stop them.
It will take severe consequences.