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US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows

Wired AI Daniel Boguslaw May 26, 2026
US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
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# US Law Enforcement Now Monitoring AI Backlash as a Security Threat Federal authorities are warning that growing anger over artificial intelligence—particularly fears about job losses and large data centers moving into communities—is creating a new category of potential security risk they're calling "anti-tech extremism." The concern suggests that frustration with AI's real impacts on jobs and neighborhoods could, in some cases, escalate into more serious problems that law enforcement feels compelled to track.

As Americans stew over the looming risk of job-stealing AI and data centers in their back yards, the feds are raising the alarm about a new category of threat, documents obtained by WIRED show.

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