The US government is now gaining access to newly and highly advanced technology that has the capability, Cenk, to gain access to Americans most sensitive data and information. And the Trump administration has no problem with this. Do you have any problems with this, Cenk? [00:00:15] because I feel like I do. I have enormous problems with it. And I think that you will if you're watching at home when you find out how they're going to surveil all of us. And as always, they say no, no, no, this is for your own good. Now give me all your private information. I [00:00:30] bet they won't do anything wrong with it. Tell us about it, yes. Okay, so this week there were two articles that were published highlighting a growing concern of this sort of technology, which is understandable and what the government says it is being used for. Note what it says [00:00:45] it's being used for. So according to a piece from the Wall Street Journal, in the battle against illegal immigration, the US is spending hundreds of millions of dollars on tools that give federal agents easy access to the home and work. addresses of American citizens, their social media accounts, vehicle information, flight history, law enforcement records, and [00:01:06] other personal information, as well as data to track their daily comings and goings. The Department of Homeland Security has put these surveillance tools, including facial recognition software, location tracking, and social media scrapers, once aimed largely at suspected [00:01:22] terrorists and drug traffickers, in the hands of federal immigration agents. who can identify, research, and track virtually anyone by entering a name, license plate, or by simply taking a person's photo. And this newly expanded domestic surveillance system, a high tech dragnet built [00:01:40] to locate, track, and deport people residing illegally in the US allows thousands of federal agents nationwide to peruse a trove of data belonging to more than 300 million people, including citizens. So what do you know, it was never about the drug traffickers, it was [00:01:58] never about the violent criminals, it was never about the illegal aliens or immigrants who were coming into our country, it was never about any of that, right? All they wanted was our data, that's what is for sale these days, we are the product, we are the ones that are for sale. So the Wall Street Journal spoke to multiple US citizens in Maine who were targeted using [00:02:17] this technology simply because- They were trying to keep tabs on ICE agents so that they can warn people. And if you remember a few months ago, that kind of technology was everywhere before they started cracking down on it. So one morning in January, a woman named Liz McClellan [00:02:33] witnessed and took photos of an ICE agent making an arrest. And when she followed them to see where they were heading next, what happened was McClellan was surprised when the agent led her to her own house and blocked her driveway. Other federal officers quickly arrived boxing [00:02:49] in her car with their own vehicles. This is a warning, an agent told her according to court records and a video recording. We know you live right here. And if you think the Trump administration cares about this, you would be wrong because they're the ones who are pushing for all of [00:03:06] this oversight. So with the backing of Congress and President Trump, DHS spent a record $425 million on surveillance tech in the past year, a 17 % increase from the prior year. Federal spending is on pace to set another record in 2026, according to an analysis of federal [00:03:26] contract data by the journal. So of course, thankfully civil rights groups have filed multiple lawsuits against DHS alleging that their use of surveillance tools revoke visas and arrest immigrants without warrants or to even threaten bystanders observing federal [00:03:43] agents. All of this is a giant violation of the Constitution. But again, DHS just brushes it off because they have all of the money behind them. They have the backing of all the tech bros. They have the backing of the entire government right now. And by the way, that's not even [00:03:58] half of what the Trump administration is doing in terms of surveillance. There's way more, because just earlier today, Pentagon announced agreements with seven AI companies including SpaceX, OpenAI, Google and video reflection, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services. And the [00:04:18] US Department of Defense is budgeting tens of billions of dollars for numerous technology firms cutting edge programs related to intelligence, drone warfare, classified and unclassified information networks and more. And it has requested $54 billion for the development of autonomous [00:04:35] weapons alone. Where's the money coming from? That's what I'm sure we would all like to know. So how each individual company's technology would be deployed was not specified. But the companies had agreed to the US military's deployment of their technology for quote, [00:04:51] any lawful use according to the Pentagon. The startup Anthropic which makes the popular Claude chat bot including the lawful use standard in its contract with the Defense Department in a high profile feud with the Bureau last month. However, there are again concerns regarding [00:05:10] what this technology even means for domestic surveillance. So currently in Iran, the Pentagon is reportedly using AI to generate hundreds of recommendations for targets in Iran, pinpoint their location, prioritize their importance, and even evaluate whether the targeting is [00:05:26] legal. And one of the AI systems it is using the Maven smart system. The culmination of a decade of collaboration between the Defense Department and the tech industry to enhance intelligence analysis, surveillance and targeting. The system enables the military to comb through [00:05:43] massive amounts of information from satellites, data brokers, the military's own drones and sensors, and social media to pick out people and objects of interest. So while they say this technology is going to be used lawfully, who even knows what that means? And make no [00:06:00] mistake, this gives the military the absolute ability to access location information, social media posts, and the ability to recreate your movements and your habits. 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All of this is not only a threat to [00:07:57] privacy, but it could make you. a potential military target. So the inferences the technology makes can be misleading and riddled with bias such as when it flags satire or humor as genuine security threats or associates. I'm sorry, associates protected characteristics like [00:08:16] black and Muslim identities with violence and other negative sentiments. And we know that AI is not perfect. We know that it makes all kinds of mistakes whenever it's analyzing things. We know that it doesn't perceive human emotion the way it should. We know that it has biases that are implicit within it, that it learns these biases from the posts and all the information [00:08:36] that it's pulling from. And this is incredibly dangerous. John, wasn't there a movie about this before? Where they try to target people before they've even done anything? I don't know, maybe Tom Cruise movie. Yeah, no, it's funny because I was just going to start with [00:08:53] Skynet is nearly complete. Also that. Yeah, that's from Terminator. uh yeah, look guys, there's a couple of dangers here. First of all, Palantir talked about how they were testing and using their uh systems in Gaza. Great, uh soon we might be using it here in the way [00:09:13] that they use it in Gaza. And then there's reports, we don't know this yet for sure, that it might have been one of these AI programs that got the location wrong. and hit the girls school in Iran and killed over 160 young girls. So oh Skynet's going great. And don't worry [00:09:34] though, when they turn it against you, I'm sure it'll work much better. After they work out the kinks uh murdering people in different countries, when they bring it here, I'm sure that their system of oppression will be perfectly worked out by then. So- uh Well, are they [00:09:52] going to bring it here? First of all, that's the whole story here. They're saying, hell yeah, we're going to bring it here. And then the only question is, what level of oppression do we get? Do they just invade our privacy and start censoring us and arresting us or denying us things for opposing, well, either our government, but more likely the Israeli [00:10:11] government? um Or do they get into physical force, right? And so, well, one guy who connects a lot of those stories is Larry Ellison. And he's founder of Oracle and he's uh one of the biggest donors to the IDF. And he's the guy who bought TikTok, CBS and CNN. And Larry [00:10:30] Ellison said on tape, uh yeah, through this uh newfound technology, we're going to be able to every citizen in everything they do. Well, thank you, Israeli big brother. That sounds like it's going to be great for America. And finally, that's what we get to. So what have [00:10:49] they already begun to do? Well, I reported uh earlier in the week about how uh DHS is now denying people green cards if they have posted on social media uh criticism of Trump. No, [00:11:04] America, no, Bolivia, no, you got it, right? Israel, of course, if you dare oppose Israel in social media, these AI programs will find you. Now already they have a bunch of uh brown [00:11:19] shirts in this country, the Israelis do, like Canary Mission. And their job is to uh attack the families and the livelihood of anyone who opposes Israel and try to ruin their lives. This will help them find people more quickly and destroy them easier. uh And we've already [00:11:38] seen that the administration has actually literally asked groups like that, hey, who should we target? Who should we arrest on behalf of Israel? Which students should we kick out? What does Israel want us to do with this technology to oppress our own citizens and anyone else that [00:11:56] lives here? So you have that to look forward to. God, this looks so amazing. And the entire time they'll tell you, it's for your security. And meanwhile though, they never catch anyone, right? They never stop any of the shooters before the shooting happens. They never stopped acts [00:12:12] of terrorism. You never actually get that security. They don't mean your security. They mean the security for the rich and powerful and most especially for the beloved and most precious Israelis. Yeah, I think the movie that I was thinking about was Minority Report. And what's [00:12:28] funny about that is that I've never seen that movie. I've never watched the movie, but it's about Tom Cruise is the cop and he is from the future and he like arrest people before they actually commit the crimes that they're going to commit. And I know that I've talked to John about this, but I don't like future stuff, right? I don't watch it. I think I only [00:12:45] just recently watched Terminator like a few years ago, but I I hate it, right? I don't want that future and these movies are always depicting a dystopian future. It's never a good fun future that they're showing us. And these are the kinds of movies that we have been fed since like the 70s, 80s, 90s. And they wonder why now they're having such a [00:13:05] hard time selling the people on AI. They wonder why we're not more excited. to adopt this technology. We all know about Skynet, even if you've never seen Terminator, you know about Skynet, you know what it can do, you know what it can become. And you saw the kind of earth that it left [00:13:21] us with. That's not why we're not buying it, we don't want it. And all of this stuff, we knew. that putting things on social media that they were calling it somehow because it was free to use, right? So I think that was fairly understood information that why is it free [00:13:37] to use? Because they want us to use it. They want our information, they're going to sell that information. And at the time, maybe a few years ago before AI was so ubiquitous, the most sinister thing about it was that they want to sell your information so they can [00:13:53] also buy ads, right? All of it was about advertising. But now it's more about surveillance and they want to monitor the things that you're saying and doing sometimes before you even say and do them. They want you to be afraid, they want you to be afraid to speak out, they want you [00:14:09] to be afraid to leave your house. They want you to know that you were absolutely being watched and so you need to watch everything that you say and do. not just when you're out in the world, but even in your own home. We all have these phones that we carry with us everywhere that track everything we do that follow us around. Half of us have Amazon, [00:14:27] what's her name, Alexa's in our houses. And we know that that thing listens to you. uh All of these things have just culminated to this point where we now have Palantir that can aggregate all this information and give it to whoever wants it. uh This is the point [00:14:43] that we're at and we know that Palantir has no moral compass whatsoever. They completely, they really just don't care if we literally die. I think the CEO has even said that much. And so as long as they're making money, they don't care what happens to the American people. [00:14:58] The fact that they were even like trial running this technology and Gaza should tell you everything. They treat those people like guinea pigs because they don't care if they die. We know that we see what's happening over there. And if it goes well, maybe why not just do it right here on the American people? Because the American people, we can get a little uppity sometimes [00:15:17] and that is not good for an authoritarian government. They don't like uppity and that is what we can be sometimes. And especially now that the American people are turning on Israel, that is not good for them and for their agenda. For whatever it is that they're trying to [00:15:32] achieve in the Middle East and with the oil crisis, all these things. The American people, if there's a possibility that we can upset that for them, they want to control us and make sure that we can't do that. And it's very sad that we are at this point, but I do want to say, because I got to say it, we told you so, right? We said that this is where things are [00:15:52] going to be headed. And if we don't do something to stop it, it's just going to get worse and worse and worse. And this is where we're at now. Okay, first I got to say, my God, bring back the ads. If you just use the AI for ads, deal. We'll just stop right there, Neil. It's what you got to do. Make more money, I don't mind, okay? uh probably also make money, so [00:16:12] good God bless, right? But don't use it for weapons, don't use it for weapons. Okay, so as if all this wasn't bad enough, I got one more depressing uh fact for you. So there's another guy investing into this and the Pentagon just gave him $24 million contract and I'm [00:16:27] sure it was fair. because the guy who got that deal was a company that Eric Trump is invested in, great. So earlier in the show, we gave you a story about a different company that Eric and Don Jr are invested in. also got a giant Pentagon contract. But this one is a [00:16:43] second one that only Eric Trump has invested in. And what are they making? Battlefield robots. oh Great, Beavis is making battlefield robots and we're paying for it. So epic disaster. And finally, guys, we gotta get money out of politics before Skynet takes over. Because [00:17:02] these corrupt politicians are just going to let them run wild with this stuff and then it's going to be too late. Get the money out, okay? uh