Link: https://prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/

In a wide-ranging conversation about threat monitoring and analysis, the interview also touches on monitoring activists. “Last year we had an executive travel into a major city when we received some intelligence through Samdesk about a planned protest,” Ellison said. The originally scheduled protest was moved up due to permitting issues. “Samdesk gave us about 60 minutes of advanced notice that the protest organizers had moved the timeline,” Ellison explained. “That extra hour was critical. Without it our executives would have departed their meetings, they would have ran right into the heart of the disruption.”

Spoke out against AI on X before?

Now you're mis identified as a murderer 3 times per year.

Anthropic had reported a man to San Francisco police for telling Claude that he had bought an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and had CEO Dario Amodei “in his sights.” When the Standard contacted the man in question, he told the newspaper he was “just fucking around.”

Well, that's one way to test if your messages are end to end encrypted or not

anthropic? more like corpthropic

What does e2e mean when one end is Anthropic's servers?

Dario's wife sought financial assistance from Epstein once

People think e2e is magic.