There are pieces of your life scattered all over the internet, and some of them are for sale. Data brokers amass web searches, financial records, and location data from millions of individuals and sell them to various clients, including the US government. Information on your recent online purchases or the route that you take to work could be sitting on hard drives around the world, waiting to be used.

While reassembling those pieces isn’t trivial, there is early evidence that LLMs might make it far easier. LLM agents could potentially do the work of intelligence analysts in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost, which would enable the state to aim its all-seeing eye toward anyone, not just its highest-priority targets….

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