Abu Dhabi's Stake, Trump's Coercion, Delaney Hall Warehousing
June 6, 2026
Abu Dhabi's investment in Anthropic and Trump's executive coercion of AI labs reveal how authoritarian capital and state power are converging to capture algorithmic safety rhetoric, turning 'alignment' into a mechanism for political compliance rather than public protection. Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's alignment with the incoming administration and ICE's warehousing of migrants at Delaney Hall demonstrate that the same chokepoint logic enabling digital control is materializing in physical detention and platform monopolies, eroding the cognitive patience required for democratic resistance.
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Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors?
Anthropic wants to keep AI away from repressive regimes. But what about its part-owner, the repressive dictatorship of Abu Dhabi? The post Anthropic Says We Must Stop Authoritarian AI. But What About Its Authoritarian Investors? appeared first on The Intercept.
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- geopolitics
- OSINT methodology
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Every Despot Needs A Chokepoint
In January 2011, a man in Tahrir Square held up a handwritten sign that read “Facebook: against every unjust.” Fourteen years later, almost to the day, Mark Zuckerberg sat in a place of honor at the inauguration of Donald Trump, ahead of the incoming cabinet. Same exact platform. Radically different…
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From oversight to coercion: How authoritarian governments are twisting AI safety to get tech companies to fall in line
President Trump's 2025 executive order about 'woke AI' put the tech industry on notice about aligning with the administration's views. AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson When researchers founded Anthropic in 2021, they said the race to build powerful AI was moving too recklessly. They inserted detaile…
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Anthropic urges AI labs to pause, warns humans risk losing control
It warned that rapid advances in technology could soon allow AI systems to improve themselves faster than human control.
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Eroding a virtue: AI trains people to expect instant answers – and that’s bad news for patience
Have you found yourself drumming your fingers in impatience more lately? Connect Images via Getty Images When I was growing up, teachers would assign research papers that required going to the library, or later, searching for relevant material on the internet. If the paper was going to turn out well…
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“Warehousing Human Beings”
Former immigration judge Andrea Sáenz and American Immigration Council’s Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on the conditions at Delaney Hall and other ICE detention centers across the U.S. The post “Warehousing Human Beings” appeared first on The Intercept.
- structural power
- geopolitics
- OSINT methodology