# AI and Mass Spying - Schneier on Security

<https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/12/ai-and-mass-spying.html>

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## What Jamie wrote

I’m enthusiastic about AI but I’m also sure it is and will continue to be used in ways I don't like. Schneier suggests that one of those will be Mass Spying.

> Similarly, mass spying will change the nature of spying. All the data will be saved. It will all be searchable, and understandable, in bulk. Tell me who has talked about a particular topic in the past month, and how discussions about that topic have evolved. Person A did something; check if someone told them to do it. Find everyone who is plotting a crime, or spreading a rumor, or planning to attend a political protest.

Surveillance is already happening at mass scale. What will it mean to put an AI inside of all of those surveillance data flows. At least right now the costs are probably prohibitive, but that won't last. This should be another urge to do everything you can to manage your identify online and make it hard for different services to connect you between them. For a long time it has been a bad practice to share passwords, but going forward we will need to not share email addresses or anything else between different sites. I can imagine web browsers that will isolate all of your browsing activity per website.

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