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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"

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Feds Target AI Critics as "Foreign Agents"
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Anxiety over AI and data centers is widely held, but somehow the Trump administration has convinced itself the public concern was manufactured in China.

This week, in little- noticed remarks by President Trump and Justice Department warning, the administration declared war on protestors and opponents of AI, threatening“criminal liability” if they “further the propaganda or other goals of a foreign power.”

While that sounds like some modern day Tokyo Rose shilling for Beijing, with orders coming in over shortwave radio, the actual targets are just normal people who have no idea they are part of the government’s latest national security mirage.

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