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Trump's executive order requires AI firms to give government early access to unreleased models. Meanwhile, Philadelphia police admitted monitoring anti-AI memes as part of tracking 'First Amendment activity.'
Trump's executive order requires AI companies to give the government early access to unreleased AI models before they're available to the public. Separately, Philadelphia police admitted they monitored anti-AI memes and rhetoric as part of tracking "First Amendment activity." These two events arrived in the same news cycle, which matters for what they signal together.
Government early access to unreleased AI models means the administration gets to use cutting-edge tools before anyone else, including journalists, researchers, or competitors. Meanwhile, police monitoring anti-AI speech—calling it "First Amendment activity" to track—shows authorities are creating databases on people expressing skepticism about government-controlled tech. It's not hard to connect those dots: concentrate AI power in government hands while suppressing public criticism of that concentration. The chilling effect is already visible in how the Philadelphia disclosure was framed as routine rather than alarming.
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