Tristan Harris

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Your Undivided Attention · Flock is Just the Beginning: Inside the Era of AI-Powered Policing · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

The legal agent that drives the LLC for the corporation, the programming agent that writes the code for the website, the social media agent that does

These things.

So people are used to this idea of agents giving us all these magical powers.

But what happens when a police force or a single police officer?

can fire up an army of a thousand AI agents to do this kind of long form what would normally take a month of research and work.

What can go wrong with that?

And is a genetic policing something that police departments are using right now?

So I just want to stop here for a moment and really absorb what Andrew's talking about here.

There's there's one surveillance story that's all about you know data.

Tech companies, data brokers, the government, they have a mountain of data on every citizen, and now they can use AI to analyze that data in real time to build out a surveillance network.

But I think Andrew's pointing to another version of a surveillance story that's actually all about AI agents.

where you enter into a world where police and law enforcement are gonna have access to thousands of agents or analysts that they can deploy to do their surveillance for them.

All running at superhuman speed, never sleeping, never complaining.

So, you know, just imagine like the classic detective's courtboard.

You know, there's the

person sitting there, the detective, and they've got a cork board up and they've got photos and pins and red yarn that's running from one node to another.

And up until now a human being had to sit down and make all those connections, you know, one at a time, over weeks or months or years.

But now imagine that there was a thousand detectives with millions of red yarn strands connecting every possible point to the

To every other point.

So, you know, today police could search for using Flock, you know, a blue pickup truck with a kayak in the bed.

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