The surveillance state never shows up with tanks on Main Street. It seeps in quietly, through smooth-talking “intellectuals” who frame tyranny as common sense.
And that’s exactly what New York Times columnist David Brooks just did on PBS — casually suggesting that artificial intelligence should monitor Americans’ online activity.
A “Simple” Idea That’s Anything But
During a PBS NewsHour segment on the Minnesota school shooting, Brooks pointed out that the gunman “left a pretty big online trail.” His proposed solution? Give AI the power to monitor people’s posts to detect potential killers before they act.
“Is there a way to use A.I. to sort of find these people a little better than apparently we are?” he asked, as if he were proposing a new social app instead of endorsing the biggest surveillance program in American history.
Brooks seemed almost surprised no one had pitched this before.
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