Commonwealth Report: Anthropic Builds a Pre-crime Surveillance System

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1:00Anthropic builds a pre-crime surveillance system. Trump rigs the 2030 Setsis, shared brown blames toxic rhetoric, ectopic deaths, double summer breaks records and polluters hide the data. Good morning. This is the Commonwealth Report news for the public, not the powerful. You can follow us at Commonwealth Report.News. Is anthropic building a pre-crime machine to hunt its own critics? The American Prospect reports that anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is building a surveillance operation targeting activists who oppose the rapid roll out of AI. The job posting last month seems seeks an intelligence specialist paid up to $230,000 to track threats, including, quote, activism. And the prospect says the company takes a quote, pre-crime approach, predicting incidents before they happen and sometimes reporting people to police first. A track to protest in real time to reroute an executive. Last week, the San Francisco Standard reported anthropic turned a Claude user into police over a chat,

2:04then refused to show officers the messages. One legal expert warned as AI companies grow more hated, they'll overreport people who shouldn't be targeted at all. A private company gets to decide who's a threat, to send itself becomes a crime. Trump follows Project 2025 playbook to rig the 2030 census. The Trump administration just formally proposed changes to the 2030 census that could erase millions from the count. The plan would exclude anyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder as of April 1, 2030, from the numbers used to apportion house seats. That means undocumented immigrants, but also visa holders, refugees, and asylum seekers. It also drops the questions on race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. The 14th Amendment says house seats are apportioned by counting, quote, the whole number of persons in each state. The Air Attorney General, Latisha James, said, quote, every person living in the United States, regardless of immigration status, must be counted. She beat Trump on this in 2020 and vows to fight again.

3:06Census numbers also steer trillions in federal funding. Rig the count and you rig the power for a full decade. Did Trump's attacks on female reporters help fuel the violence in Ohio? Over the weekend, an armed man lunged at Amy Acton, Ohio's Democratic candidate for governor at the Canfield Fair. He injured bystanders, but never reached her, and he since pleaded not guilty of misdemeanor charges. Shared brown, the former senator now running for Senate again, faced reporters this week and didn't dodge. Anyone who commits political violence, he said, should be held responsible. Politicians at the highest levels of government are attacking people personally, he said, and the president keeps calling names, particularly female reporters. And he said, there's just no room for that. He says keeping staff and volunteers safe is his first job, but he won't skip a single event. When the most powerful man in the country models contempt, some of his followers act on it. Words in the top land at the bottom. Why are women dying from a condition that should never kill anyone?

4:08Pro-publica analyzed CDC data and found that deaths involving ectopic pregnancies nearly doubled from about 120 14 through 2019 to almost 200 since 2020. Doctors say these deaths should never happen. Excuse me, ectopic president, president, pregnancy can't survive, and treatment means ending them. Nationwide, the rate claimed, but in states with strict abortion it hit 13.1 deaths per million births, versus 7.1 in states without bans. Women described being sent home from emergency rooms while their tubes were ruptured. One Oklahoma woman was refused at three hospitals. One doctor telling her her treatment could mean 10 years in the pokey before she drugged to Kansas for care. Meanwhile, Trump gutted the CDC's reproductive health division, so almost nobody is investigating this. Republicans passed these bans in the name of life. Women are dying and the government has stopped counting. Well, the climate train won us over while Trump serves big oil. Noah announced Wednesday that August was the hottest ever recorded in the lower 48,

5:123.5 degrees above the 20th century average. And June through August was the hottest summer in 132 years. The dust bowl summer of 1936 has now been matched or beaten twice in five years. Texas A&M climate scientist, Daniel Dressler says it's time to stop acting surprised because this has happened exactly as scientists forecast decades ago. And a new study in environmental research letters warns that thawing permafrost, warming wetlands, and bigger wildfires could amplify warming in another 20 to 30% by 2010. Feedback loops most projections ignore. Meanwhile, Trump declared an emergency and energy emergency quit the Paris Agreement again and left workers without heat protections. One scientist calls it unconscionable. The physics don't care whose president it keeps the receipts. Chemical giants rewrite state laws so nobody can prove the air is poisoned. Floodlight reports that since 2024, Louisiana, Kentucky and Ohio have passed nearly

6:13identical laws, baspock backed by chemical and manufacturing trade groups, that bar regulators from using community collected air data for enforcement, unless it comes from EPA approved equipment costing tens of thousands of dollars. Meanwhile, government air monitors have followed by nearly half in 20 years, and six in 10 counties have none. For 71 of the 100 biggest polluters, floodlight examined, the chemical each released isn't even most isn't measured by any state monitor. Industry claims it's about accuracy, but when West Virginia's lawmakers offered a compromise requiring accurate monitors, a chemoor's official wrote it quote, essentially codifies what we are trying to prevent. The American chemistry council spent $22 million lobbying in 2024. You can't fight what you're not allowed to measure or know. And that's the way it is that a Thursday, September 10, 2026, I'm Tom Hartman.