Is the Pentagon allowed to surveil Americans with AI?

MIT Technology Review
by Michelle Kim
March 6, 2026
The ongoing public feud between the Department of Defense and the AI company Anthropic has raised a deep and still unanswered question: Does the law actually allow the US government to conduct mass surveillance on Americans? Surprisingly, the answer is not straightforward. More than a decade after Edward Snowden exposed the NSA’s collection of bulk…
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Originally published on MIT Technology Review on 3/6/2026