B.2 Privacy and mass surveillance

Summary

Reading and viewing on privacy, surveillance, and autonomous weapons.

B.2.1 Privacy, power, and democratic freedoms

• Why Privacy Matters, by Glenn Greenwald (video): why privacy matters even with "nothing to hide," and how surveillance can change behavior and constrain freedom.

B.2.2 AI-enabled surveillance and weapons

• Slaughterbots, by the Future of Life Institute (short film): a fictional look at the potential consequences of cheap, autonomous lethal weapons.

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