AI Surveillance Is Being Supercharged–And It Will Chill Social Progress

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">In an <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/06/ai-surveillance-policy">op-ed </a>for <em>The Guardian</em>, senior research fellow Jon Penney and co-author Bruce Schneier argue that widely deploying AI surveillance could be corrosive to democracy and social progress itself.&nbsp;</p>

<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Citing Penney’s new book, <em>