US Vice President JD Vance flagged AI's surveillance power in a recent interview clip, describing it as fundamentally a communist technology because it lets governments and corporations monitor people in profound new ways, with commentary linking the remark to risks like social credit systems.
True. And this is exactly where an “FDA for AI” will lead.
🚨 JD VANCE: “I really worry about with AI is surveillance… AI is fundamentally a communist technology. It allows governments and corporations to surveil people in very profound and different ways. And that scares me a lot…”
The line matches phrasing he used at the 2025 Bitcoin Conference, where he called the communist-tech label an overstatement that still contains a kernel of truth around centralization, now resurfacing via a 41-second video excerpt from a longer YouTube sit-down.
The remarks appear as a standalone warning inside an interview focused on other topics, with sampled reactions noting irony around current government-AI interactions but no linked announcement, deal, or regulatory step.
Some users praised JD Vance for accurately calling out AI surveillance risks as communist-like, while many others dismissed the claim as crazy or insulted him directly.
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says a man in a government that is at war with @AnthropicAI for refusing to do … exactly this.
🚨 JD VANCE: “I really worry about with AI is surveillance… AI is fundamentally a communist technology. It allows governments and corporations to surveil people in very profound and different ways. And that scares me a lot…”
@GroundhogStrat plutarchy has nothing to do with communism and isn't used that way in the united states
@DeepDishEnjoyer Communist means bad. Bad means democratic party. I don't think it's deeper than that.
@DeepDishEnjoyer He is right that AGI is centralizing/authoritarian. He's wrong that it's like "politically" communist, but he's right when using the word "communist" as it is used in American politics e.g. centrally planned, top-down, a unitary power as opposed to a decentralized market.
>AI is fundamentally a communist technology.
my brother in christ sufficiently cheap agi changes the production function to something univariate with capital
🚨 JD VANCE: “I really worry about with AI is surveillance… AI is fundamentally a communist technology. It allows governments and corporations to surveil people in very profound and different ways. And that scares me a lot…”
@ns123abc @MixMartialMike Is this the same JD Vance who is best friends with Peter Thiel?
@ns123abc Vance is right to worry about AI surveillance, but calling AI “communist” is bizarre…. The surveillance risk is not uniquely communist. It can come from governments and corporations.
@DavidSacks Meanwhile China’s Social Credit System evaluates behaviors by integrating vast databases with AI surveillance to monitor, incentivize, and penalize both corporate and individual conduct.
From his latest interview that just dropped: https://youtu.be/5cKDs7bIGPE?si=JECfkuJF4Iq2W56w
@ns123abc WTF type of ideological drivel is that. Technology does not have an ideology. Any tech can be used for totalitarian purposes.
@DavidSacks Liberty must reign.
@DeepDishEnjoyer You're not wrong but the surveillance potential of the more realistic short term less-than-AGI we already have is huge. The bottleneck preventing truly scalable watch-everything hear-everything with-contextual-understanding surveillance was brains. Likely huge % of demand.
@DavidSacks "AI is fundamentally a communist technology"?
True. And this is why we need US-created, open source and open weight AI models to run locally, privately. Local AI will happen, and we shouldn't be using China models. Who knows what they will do, or say, or backdoors they have? @sundarpichai @elonmusk free us! @google or @xai are set up to do this. You have the balance sheet and business model to do it! @SpaceX 🔥🚀♥️🇺🇸
@ns123abc .@VP i. The name and narrative of "AI" is obsolete and unethical anyway. Let's return to tech, as in, information technology, tech development/applications, digitization, and/or machine learning (whatever it refers to --- let's specify). ii. The issue with surveillance can be 1/
@LinusMixson @DeepDishEnjoyer Why for you?
@joseph_h_garvin @DeepDishEnjoyer Exciting time for me! And terrible for everyone else.
@AtakanTekparmak @ns123abc yeah, but person and context and... a lot of other things aside, point is valid
@ns123abc @grok in what ways is the VP talking about? What are these profound new ways?
@crccpa1855 @ns123abc Thats the dumb part. “AI is fundamentally communist” yet dont you dare regulate it!
