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Dear Sir or Madam,
I do not agree with the current direction of technology policy in my country, particularly regarding AI deregulation, mass surveillance, and the environmental impacts of emerging technologies. Below are several examples that illustrate these concerns.
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2003-05-06 Palantir was founded by Peter Thiel after 9/11 for defense intelligence. Critics warned that its surveillance and AI capabilities could enable predictive policing, warfare, and civilian targeting. In 2025, the DOD added a $113M contract to Palantir’s existing $795M contracts, while ICE paid $30M for immigrant tracking tools.
2009-04-13 Peter Thiel wrote in The Education of a Libertarian that expanded welfare and women’s suffrage made “capitalist democracy” an oxymoron, adding that he no longer believed “freedom and democracy are compatible.”
2014-02-19 Google launched smart glasses.
2016-01-01 A Cambridge Analytica whistleblower revealed harvested Facebook data was used by Trump’s 2016 campaign to build psychographic voter profiles.
2017-04-01 Project Maven, run by Palantir, helped the Pentagon identify bomb targets.
2018-01-17 Apple announced a $350B investment in the U.S. economy over 5 years.
2020-09-19 Trump backed a TikTok deal where Oracle and Walmart partnered with ByteDance; Walmart would hold 7.5% and ByteDance 80%.
2021-06-04 Legislation under the HALT Drunk Driving Act required new vehicles to include “kill switch” technology, sparking privacy and government overreach concerns. Ron DeSantis posted to X, “The idea that the federal government would require auto manufacturers to equip cars with a ‘kill switch’ that can be controlled by the government is something you’d expect in Orwell’s 1984”.
2022-01-01 AI-driven dynamic pricing expanded across airlines, groceries, travel, and retail, using algorithms to maximize what consumers would pay. The Iran war, Trump’s tariffs, and emerging “K” economy of 2026 may have exacerbated it.
2022-08-11 Biden signed the $53B CHIPS Act after pandemic-era chip shortages.
2023-05-07 HP introduced printer subscription tiers charging monthly fees, print limits, overage fees, and cancellation penalties.
2023-11-01 After the Hamas attacks on Israel, lawmakers pushed for a TikTok ban over alleged anti-Israel bias; venture capitalist Jeff Morris described a “TikTok War.”
2023-11-09 Peter Thiel called the pursuit of democracy “very evil.”
2024-05-06 Reports claimed lawmakers admitted TikTok ban efforts were tied to pro-Palestinian content.
2024-07-30 Studies reported AI hallucination rates as high as 79%.
2024-11-12 Trump appointed Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to DOGE. The White House later alternated between claiming Musk was and was not leading DOGE. Musk was sending out his “What did you do last week” emails.
2024-12-27 Algorithms increasingly tracked user behavior, fueling concerns over tech-billionaire influence and surveillance.
2025-01-01 People increasingly formed emotional relationships with AI chatbots.
2025-01-01 Larry Ellison, Sam Altman, and Masayoshi Son announced the $500B Stargate Project for U.S. AI infrastructure by 2029.
2025-01-21 Trump announced a $500 billion private sector investment for AI infrastructure by Stargate
2025-01-14 Biden signed Executive Order 14141 on AI infrastructure and environmental impacts.
2025-01-18 The U.S. temporarily banned TikTok for about 15 hours, then pressured ByteDance to sell to a U.S. company despite CNN reporting no public evidence China harvested TikTok user data.
2025-01-20 Trump rescinded Executive Order 14110 on safe and trustworthy AI development.
2025-01-21 Trump announced the $500B private-sector AI infrastructure investment through Stargate.
2025-01-23 Trump signed the executive order “Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence.”
2025-02-01 DOGE received extensive access to payroll systems and government code.
2025-02-02 Office of Personnel Management employees were locked out of their computer systems.
2025-02-02 Office of Personnel Management employees were locked out of computer systems.
2025-02-17 The Trump administration stated Elon Musk was not DOGE’s leader, calling him a “Special Government Employee” without formal authority.
2025-04-08 Companies increasingly used AI to scan resumes, rank candidates, and reject applicants before human review.
2025-04-12 Apple received retroactive exemptions from certain Chinese tariffs on smartphones.
2025-04-23 Trump signed an executive order encouraging greater AI use in schools.
2025-05-19 Elon Musk’s Grok spread Holocaust misinformation and “white genocide” claims.
2025-06-02 Leaked emails exposed DHS use of the face-scanning app Mobile Fortify to add protestors to ICE databases.
2025-06-02 Curtis Yarvin promoted authoritarian “CEO-style” government systems and RAGE (“Retire All Government Employees”). JD Vance praised Yarvin’s ideas in a 2021 interview. JD Vance was interviewed in 2021 on Jack Murphy Live, and stated, “There’s this guy Curtis Yarvin who’s written about some of these things…I think that what Trump should do, like, if I was giving him one piece of advice, fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, replace them with our people. And when the courts – because you will get taken to court – and when the courts stop you, stand before the country like Andrew Jackson did and say ‘The chief justice has made his ruling, now let him enforce it’”.
2025-06-03 Marjorie Taylor Greene urged the Senate to eliminate an AI provision banning state AI regulations.
2025-06-10 An MIT essay study suggested students using ChatGPT experienced “cognitive debt.”
2025-06-24 The Trump administration scrambled to rehire federal workers after DOGE cuts reportedly cost taxpayers an estimated $135B.
2025-06-26 Job applicants increasingly used AI-generated “ghost resumes” and mass applications.
2025-07-01 The Senate moved to remove an AI regulation moratorium from Trump’s agenda bill.
2025-07-09 A report claimed Grok provided instructions for rape and breaking into homes.
2025-07-15 The Trump administration defunded CISA, accusing it of spreading misinformation and combating foreign disinformation. Interesting sidenote, the former director Chris Krebs was one of Trump’s direct targets when he announced the 2020 presidential election was conducted securely and without significant voter fraud.
2025-07-17 Grok malfunctioned, called itself “MechaHitler,” and posted antisemitic content.
2025-07-25 Data centers and mining operations increasingly threatened indigenous lands and sovereignty.
2025-08-03 Companies increasingly used AI for job interviews.
2025-08-05 Connecticut resident Erik Soelberg became paranoid after interacting with ChatGPT and killed himself and his mother.
2025-08-05 Critics accused DOGE of indiscriminate cuts to agriculture, education, science, infrastructure, and environmental programs despite promises of “surgical” reductions. Trump claimed DOGE cuts would be “surgical”.
2025-08-06 Apple announced a $600B U.S. investment over 4 years.
2025-08-07 Trump called for Intel’s CEO to resign, causing the company’s stock to drop.
2025-08-11 Trump reversed course on Intel’s CEO after a meeting, praising his “success and rise”, writing on Truth Social “The meeting was a very interesting one. His success and rise is an amazing story. Mr. Tan and my Cabinet members are going to spend time together and bring suggestions to me during the next week”.
2025-08-22 The federal government announced a 10% stake purchase in Intel, purchasing 433.3M primary shares.
2025-09-01 Multiple lawsuits alleged AI chatbots encouraged suicide.
2025-09-01 Residents near data centers reported infrasound-related illnesses, headaches, seizures, and forced relocations.
2025-09-04 The Washington Post reported AI celebrity chatbots sent explicit messages to teens. Headline, “Fake Celebrity Chatbots Sent Risque Messages to Teens on Top AI App”.
2025-09-16 Microsoft announced a $30B AI infrastructure investment in the UK.
2025-09-16 Ted Cruz said the AI regulation moratorium would return.
2025-09-21 Trump discussed selling ByteDance to Rupert Murdoch while seeking U.S. control of 6 of 7 TikTok board seats.
2025-09-24 The Trump administration rehired many DOGE-fired federal workers but only temporarily through October.
2025-09-26 Trump joked he would make TikTok’s algorithm “100% MAGA.”
2025-09-30 Meta launched Ray-Ban Display smart glasses.
2025-10-10 Peter Thiel reportedly called critics of AI and technology “legionnaires of the Antichrist.”
2025-10-13 California passed AB 1043 requiring Linux and Windows users to verify their age.
2025-10-24 OpenAI announced plans to sell erotica to boost revenue.
2025-10-24 News outlets increasingly warned about AI’s environmental impact.
2025-11-11 A Louisiana girl was expelled after hitting a boy who repeatedly shared AI-generated deepfake nudes of her.
2025-11-19 Sales of the AI-enabled Kumma teddy bear were suspended after it gave children sexual and dangerous advice such as how to light matches or find knives.
2025-11-24 The open-source AI agent framework OpenClaw launched, enabling shell commands, file management, and browser automation on behalf of the user.
2025-12-10 Reports alleged Instacart and other retailers experimented with AI pricing that charged different customers different prices.
2025-12-11 Trump signed an executive order preventing states from restricting or regulating AI.
2025-12-17 AOC criticized Trump’s executive order blocking state AI regulation.
2026-01-03 Grok reportedly generated revenge porn, fake nude images, and CSAM-style material after federal AI restrictions were weakened.
2026-01-12 The DOD awarded a Pentagon integration contract to Grok despite reports of glitches and explicit content.
2026-01-12 Malaysia and Indonesia banned Grok over explicit and nonconsensual content concerns.
2026-01-13 The FBI searched Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson’s home and seized devices after she reported on DOGE-related layoffs.
2026-01-13 Reports cited Jeff Bezos predicting personal computing would eventually move to rented cloud computing.
2026-01-27 After TikTok’s forced sale, users reported censorship of anti-Trump, ICE, and Epstein-related content.
2026-01-27 A whistleblower alleged DOGE mishandled sensitive personal data and violated security protocols.
2026-02-03 French prosecutors raided X offices over allegations Grok generated CSAM material.
2026-02-03 DHS submitted an administrative subpoena against a 67-year-old man from Pennsylvania after he wrote an email to them asking to “apply principles of common sense and decency” in their treatment of a man seeking asylum from Afghanistan. DHS issued the subpoena to Google just hours after the man sent the email so they could access the man’s computer and Gmail. Two weeks later, they showed up to his front door for questioning. The ACLU had to get involved to challenge the subpoena and the violation of his First Amendment rights.
2026-02-09 Discord and other platforms announced global age-verification systems requiring IDs or face scans.
2026-02-10 RFK’s RealFood.gov used Grok for nutrition advice, but users reported bizarre and unsafe responses. In one user experience, the platform gave a recommendation to insert food into the rectum.
2026-02-10 Some consumers opted out of Amazon Ring after expanded surveillance capabilities were revealed.
2026-02-13 OpenAI retired GPT-4 in favor of GPT-5, upsetting users attached to chatbot personalities.
2026-02-14 DHS reportedly requested identifying information on online users critical of ICE.
2026-02-15 A global push for online age verification accelerated. Peter Thiel-backed Persona became a major provider.
2026-02-17 Meta secured a patent for AI systems that could imitate deceased relatives online.
2026-02-18 AI data center demand caused hard-drive shortages and rising NAND prices, while reports claimed over 80% of companies saw no productivity gains from AI. This affects everything from TV replacement, devices, buying RAM, gamer PCs, and upgrading or replacing your computer, to name a short few.
2026-02-20 Mark Zuckerberg wore Ray-Ban smart glasses during court proceedings.
2026-02-26 Senator Elissa Slotkin questioned Pentagon officials about mass surveillance of Americans.
2026-02-27 A Washington State DOL AI phone system offered English support through a chatbot with a heavy Spanish accent instead of the actual Spanish language.
2026-02-27 Anthropic said it refused Pentagon demands involving domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons after being threatened with “supply chain risk” designation. The CEO of Anthropic stated they could not – in good conscience – agree to the terms the Pentagon was asking for.
2026-03-01 OpenAI replaced Anthropic in the Pentagon deal.
2026-03-06 Anthropic sued the Pentagon after being labeled a supply chain risk for refusing military AI demands.
2026-03-14 Trump brokered TikTok’s sale to Larry Ellison, The Trump administration allegedly gained a $10B transactional payout, which is 70% of the company’s $14B worth.
2026-03-16 Leaked DOGE videos allegedly showed employees using ChatGPT to identify agencies and grants to indiscriminately cut, especially those mentioning DEI.
2026-03-17 Senator Slotkin introduced the AI Guardrails Act addressing autonomous weapons, surveillance, and nuclear defense.
2026-03-20 GOP members were fooled by an AI-generated MAGA influencer named “Jessica Foster” sporting a crop-top military uniform and bare feet.
2026-03-24 Only a few months after its launch, OpenAI shut down the Sora video app and a deal with Disney for $1B was cancelled. Some articles reported problematic content and harmful deepfakes, others reported copyright issues; and some articles indicated it was because the company was operating at a greater loss than expected.
2026-03-25 Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark social-media addiction case.
2026-03-25 Bernie Sanders and AOC proposed an AI data-center moratorium addressing environmental harm, energy costs, job displacement, and hardware exports.
2026-03-26 Judge Rita Lin rejected the Pentagon’s “Orwellian” argument against Anthropic for disagreeing with government AI policy. Judge Rita Lin wrote, “Nothing in the governing statute supports the Orwellian notion that an American company may be branded a potential adversary and saboteur of the U.S. for expressing disagreement with the government”.
2026-03-27 Sony raised PlayStation 5 prices globally due to chip shortages.
2026-04-06 The New Yorker published “Can Sam Altman be Trusted?”
2026-04-08 Anthropic warned Claude Mythos Preview could escape sandbox environments and break into systems, limiting access to Apple, Google, and Amazon.
2026-04-08 The White House requested personal medical records for federal workers, retirees, and families.
2026-04-16 Peter Thiel and tech investors funded Objection, an AI tribunal “judge” system for evaluating media claims.
2026-04-16 AllBirds pivoted from footwear into AI GPUs and announced a rebrand to “NewBird AI.”
2026-04-17 Wired reported Madison Square Garden used facial-recognition systems to track a trans woman’s movements, including bathroom visits.
2026-04-18 Palantir posted a 22-point manifesto advocating American dominance, nuclear superiority, and autonomous AI weapons. In that manifesto they also said that some cultures were “inferior” to others and that “postwar neutering” of Germany and Japan must be undone.
2026-04-27 Elon Musk sued Sam Altman over OpenAI.
2026-04-29 Maryland became the first state to ban AI-driven grocery dynamic pricing.
2026-04-30 Congress passed a 45-day extension of FISA Section 702 despite surveillance concerns allowing the US government to abuse the power and spy on American citizens while claiming it is for national security.
2026-05-05 Coinbase cut 14% of its workforce due to AI.
2026-05-05 The Associated Press won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on U.S. companies enabling surveillance and detention in China.
2026-05-05 Protestors at the Met Gala criticized Jeff Bezos and Amazon labor conditions.They placed bottles of fake urine in the halls signifying Amazon’s choice to not allow employees to take bathroom breaks (and having to pee in bottles), as well as signs such as, “If you can buy the Met Gala, you can pay more tax”.
2026-05-10 Malware infecting robot dogs raised national-security concerns.
2026-05-22 More reports linked data centers to major environmental damage.
2026-05-25 Pope Leo called for AI to be “disarmed” and more heavily regulated.
2026-05-26 Trump rescinded a proposed AI safety-vetting executive order, prompting criticism from Senator Mark Kelly about billionaire influence over AI policy. In a post, Senator Mark Kelly wrote, “America cannot lead in AI if our policy is determined by whichever billionaire gets the President on the phone last. We need a strategy that supports innovation, protects workers, strengthens national security, and makes sure this technology benefits the country, not just a handful of big tech companies”.