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I fear that during a "total war" scenario, militaries will use AI powered automatic doxing and extortion tools to target civilian populations, as they have in the past with 'strategic' bombing.

Something alone the lines of "Quit or sabotage your work at the power plant, or we'll tell your wife about [all the reddit accounts you ever used, all the thots you swiped on tiktok, etc]" You can imagine more potent examples I'm sure.

This sort of thing has always been possible for high-profile targets, done manually by intelligence agencies; it's the 'C' in MICE. What's new is being able to scale these attacks to the general population because it no longer takes extensive manpower to research, contact and manipulate each targeted individual.



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