Konstantin Kisin

We've been observing this over many different years.

So this year, $30 billion.

Next year, it'll be $3 billion.

And it'll be $300 million.

By the end of the decade, it will cost less to surveil every single nook and cranny in this country than it does to remodel the White House.

Um, and you would hope that there's a symmetric property to this technology such that, oh, the government can surveil us, but we can also, the AI is also helping us keep better tabs on the government.

Maybe it exists.

I'm not sure.

I'm not convinced it does.

Because in some sense, AI just gives you more leverage on the things you already have.

And the government already has the monopoly on violence.

And they can supercharge this with extremely obedient employees and servants and bureaucrats that will do exactly what they say with ability to monitor everything.

So I think, yeah, it's really worth worrying about how do we make sure that we don't lose reigns of free government, democratic government.

Yeah.

I mean, there will in fact be a stronger dynamic in that way because AI actually will be very dangerous.

And so the government can say, oh, you can use AI to make bioweapons.

You can use AI to do all these scary things.

We need to be monitoring what's happening.

And it will seem even more reasonable than what was done during COVID.

And so I think that a lot of the reasons that government has not been as authoritarian as it has in the past is that