fbi used everyday americans 28,000 times going into 2020 to 2021. section 02 of the foreign intelligence surveillance act also known as fisa. it gives the fbi and other agencies the ability to difficultily surveil.used the te civil unrest following the death of george floyd on the streets of the united states. those involved in the january 6th capitol attack. even political donors. according to the court a redacted name or names, quote: conducted a batch query for over 19,000 donors to a congressional campaign. the analyst who ran the query advised that the campaign was a target of foreign influence but the national security division determined that only 8 identifiers used in a query had sufficient ties to foreign influence activities to comply with the querying standard. the judge wrote that the problems were persistent and widespread and, quote: it may become necessary to consider
online conduct that happens toddler already even without today already is some of the most superficial and inhuman aspects. just because there s a human on the other end doesn t mean a the that you re dealing with the best part of humanity. will: that s really interesting. you know, one of the points i make in the book i just wrote is that these systems tend to reinforce the parts of us that are most computable. is so we re already being encouraged to strip ourselves down to a bunch to labels of labels and identifiers and be seen if those terms. 56789i.s extend that even further a.i.s, but the irony is that we were already ahead of that. will: wow,ing a that s really interesting. pete: it is. you ve got us thinking about it this morning, david. appreciate your time, and this is only the beginning. thank you. thanks for having me. will: you got it.
book i just wrote is that these systems tend to reinforce the parts of us that are most computable. so we re already being encouraged to strip ourselves down to a bunch of labels and identifiers and be seen in those terms. a.i.s extend that even further, but the irony, i think, is that we were already headed there. will: so that s what threw me off. pete: rattled your cage. will: this a.i. thing is uncredibly concerning. but what he said there is we re beating a.i. to the punch on stripping ourselves of humanity. we live online so much and what we put online and that trans what translates isn t what makes us human. it s our identity, our race, our hi this, our that and even when there s another person on the end of the tweet or the text, are they really being human? pete: an interesting part of humanity, are the 23450u wants in between? that s the depth.
We’ve all got Facebook friends who post warnings that their account has been hacked and “do not accept friend requests” from me. I know I see these posts frequently and