The following report is by The Trends Journal:
Using deep-learning neural net AI to mine public (and certainly other) data, and report on travelers to government agents?
It’s coming, and it will likely start at the border, as a “tool” to help DHS vet migrants.
An exec at Babel Street, a provider of citizen surveillance software to the U.S. Federal government, has suggested employing a ChatGPT-like AI trained on publicly available data to build risk assessment profiles that could be used by border agents.
Declan Trezise, Babel’s VP of Global Solutions, discussed the idea during a webinar this past week, according to journalist Jack Poulsen, who reported the matter on his substack.
I love the idea that there could be a model — a risk model — that could be built. A large data risk model. You know, a Border GPT.
Trezise said about the prospect.
Trezise detailed what such a system would involve, noting it would fill a gap where “biometrics” on individuals were not available:
A [traveler’s] risk can be assessed quite quickly if you have good biometrics. But in the absence of that, you may want to pull together things like publicly available information. You want to get a watch list that can be updated as quickly as possible with as much accuracy as possible.
The border guard wants to know everything they can about a person before that person is in front of them. That’s where we’re going to start to focus some emerging technologies. We’re on the cusp of a revolution in terms of AI.
(“Surveillance firm proposes ‘Border GPT’,” 21 Jun 2023.)
Though the use of powerful AI chatbots was discussed at the webinar only in the context of a border use case involving migrants, Babel Street’s history with U.S. intelligence agencies suggests use of the technology might not stay at the border.
The Trends Journal has previously detailed the controversial use of Babel Street’s “Babel X” AI-powered software by the government, to monitor social media posts, gauge citizen “sentiments,” and screen National Guard troops to ensure “right think.” (See “WATCH THE SNARK: AI CAN NOW DETECT SARCASM ON SOCIAL MEDIA,” 11 May 2021.)
We also identified Babel Street as a “third party” data broker provider to the Federal government of citizen data siphoned from cell phones. (“U.S. INTEL WORKING WITH ‘DATA BROKERS’ TO TRACK AMERICANS, NEW EFF REPORT SHOWS,” 12 Jul 2022.)
Federal Intelligence agencies are (supposedly) barred from directly gathering various kinds of surveillance data on American citizens.
But they have used a loophole in laws to buy data from private companies that gives them privileged info on Americans, including cell phone tracking data and much more.
TRENDPOST: The fact that Babel Street, a major conduit for U.S. intelligence agencies to skirt the spirit of Constitutionally protected privacy rights of Americans, is talking about ChatGPT style powered surveillance, is significant.
They have a track record of providing sophisticated surveillance software, and deep ties to U.S. Intel.
Combining AI that can consume huge swathes of data from public and government resources, and convey that info instantly, in the conversational style of an human-like AI “informant,” is the tantalizing prospect of “Surveillance GPT.”
Given the history, it’s easy to see where this is going. Generative AI will be used by governments, including in the U.S., to identify, mark and screen citizens according to Ideological risks to the regime.
Babel X was used in 2021 to help ensure the ideological conformance of National Guard troops chosen to deploy in Washington D.C. to supposedly deter “Insurrectionist” threats.
That was theater used to bludgeon political enemies, undermine American protest and redress of grievance rights, and turn attention away from truly insidious deep state and elitist driven election manipulation.
From “Russian Collusion” to U.S. funding of a Wuhan China virology lab, to government endorsement of political violence and intimidation during the 2020 “summer of BLM,” to 500 million in “Zuckerbucks” to undermine voting integrity, to U.S. Intel and MSM suppression of damaging Hunter Biden laptop info, to Fed infiltration and instigating violence of Jan 6 protests to bolster a “violent insurrectionist” narrative…there was a lot of gaslighting and redirection work to do.
But even all that manipulation is nothing compared to the dystopian promise of increasingly sophisticated AI.
ChatGPT-style AI surveillance reporting will likely bring ideological surveillance and canceling of citizen travel and other rights to a whole new level.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
[17] As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. [18] They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. Lamentations 4:17-18
It should be noted and reminded that President Trump campaigned on this in 2016, wanting to create a “biometric tracking system” designed specifically for the border crisis. It’s classic Problem. Reaction. Solution. Allow immigration to balloon out of control, wait for the public to go so fed up with it, and then introduce biometric databasing and microchipping to monitor them; when then is also applied to the whole rest of the public…
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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ideological risks to the regime – sounds like CCPOOP
they used immigrants to force both canada and usa into surveillance and more communism manure
all the nations ate watching to see if the western world gives up its liberty.