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irisblue

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Fri Feb 27, 2026, 12:29 PM Friday

The TV show Person of Interest was on 2011-16 & was a/b mass surveillance & AI [View all]

Nathan Ingram the blonde good looking guy was one of the 2 creators of The Machine which did do mass surveillance to find potential terrorists post 9/11 in the TV show.
It was programed as a black box, so that no human could adjust it's programing for any governments' benefit.

I wonder if this premise impacted Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei

Nathan & Denton Weeks & Alicia Corwan discussing how the machine works





Nathan Ingram F/U smirk to Denton Weeks is 🤌🤌 perfect.
This is about 2:20 into the clip

A/B Anthropic & the US Military demands.

snip-WASHINGTON (AP) — A public showdown between the Trump administration and Anthropic is hitting an impasse as military officials demand the artificial intelligence company bend its ethical policies by Friday or risk damaging its business.
Much more there

https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-pentagon-ai-hegseth-dario-amodei-b72d1894bc842d9acf026df3867bee8a



Mods, while I mention current events it is mainly about the TV show.
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