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Illegitimate surveillance and censorship

"The collection of large amounts of information about people for the purpose of mass surveillance has raised ethical and social concerns, including risk of censorship and of undermining public discourse (Cyphers and Gebhart, 2019; Stahl, 2016; Véliz, 2019). Sifting through these large datasets previously required millions of human analysts (Hunt and Xu, 2013), but is increasingly being automated using AI (Andersen...

AI Risk4. Malicious Actors & Misuse4.1 > Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale2 - Post-deployment

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"The collection of large amounts of information about people for the purpose of mass surveillance has raised ethical and social concerns, including risk of censorship and of undermining public discourse (Cyphers and Gebhart, 2019; Stahl, 2016; Véliz, 2019). Sifting through these large datasets previously required millions of human analysts (Hunt and Xu, 2013), but is increasingly being automated using AI (Andersen, 2020; Shahbaz and Funk, 2019)."

Domain4. Malicious Actors & Misuse
Subdomain4.1 > Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
Entity1 - Human
Intent1 - Intentional
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategoryMalicious Uses
SubcategoryIllegitimate surveillance and censorship

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