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Britain’s Home Secretary wants AI so “the eyes of the state can be on you at all times”

Rob Beschizza
Jan 26, 2026
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Shabana 9000. Illo: Beschizza

Shabana Mahmood, Britain’s Home Secretary, dreams the dream of the interior minister: total surveillance of everyone, everywhere, at every moment of their lives. Evoking the Panopticon—the circular prison devised by philosopher Jeremy Bentham to allow a single observer to see into every prisoner’s cell—she said she hopes for…

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