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Dario Amodei, the co-founder and C.E.O. of Anthropic, spoke bluntly last week when he was asked whether the company’s A.I. models could be used for authoritarian purposes—telling The New York Times that he worries about autonomous weapons and mass surveillance making a “mockery” of the First and Fourth amendments. “Constitutional rights and liberty along many different dimensions can be undermined by A.I. if we don’t update these protections appropriately,” he warned.