Anthropic Reportedly Builds 'Pre-Crime' Unit to Track AI Activists

Establishment-critical narrative

A company that swore off mass surveillance is now running its own, tracking activists, protests and vague "persons of interest" and calling cops on users before any crime happens. They refuse to hand over the messages that supposedly justified the alarm. Branding dissent as a threat category turns ordinary civic opposition into an intelligence target, so once AI gets stamped as critical infrastructure, that dragnet becomes the template for shredding civil liberties.