"Most Have No Idea How Dangerous He Truly Is…" | Edward Snowden Latest Interview
Chapter 1: The dangers of agentic AI
0:000 secondsSo now your computer that is connected to the internet is being frankly remotely controlled by a model that's
0:077 secondsfar away that you don't understand how it works but you know you hope it works pretty well and frankly they do work reasonably well but every now and then
0:1515 secondsit might hack you know some random company or whatever out there. I think we need to put Sam Alman in jail and I think it'll be an instructive experience.
Chapter 2: The state action doctrine
0:2323 secondsEdward Snowden spent over a decade warning about surveillance systems that expand past their original purpose. In this talk at ETHZurich, he made a
0:3131 secondsspecific legal argument that's suddenly very relevant. That AI companies calling their products agents creates a real legal trap because if a government uses
0:4040 secondsthat agent, the company running it becomes what US law calls an agent of government and the constitution applies to it directly. Just this month, that argument stopped being theoretical.
0:4949 secondsthese um private companies are basically operationalizing the plumbing and they're becoming
0:5757 secondspartners to government. They're becoming in a way agents of government which actually without actually being employees of government.