AI is making it very easy for the government to spy on you. Some lawmakers are worried.

Brilliant timing. Just as Congress pretends to have concerns about privacy, AI arrives to make it so trivially easy for Three-Letter Agencies to hoover up your encrypted chats that legislators can barely muster a tut of disapproval.

NBC News reports the latest round of the Section 702 debate — the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act provision that lets US intelligence vacuum up "non-US persons'" communications without a warrant, a loose term that mainly means "anyone married to or emailing someone with a LinkedIn photo in Russia." One tactical update giving congressbeings indigestion: AI-powered analysis has become absurdly fast at parsing intercepted communications, allowing analysts to flag, name-finger, and pocket significant chats at machine speed.

Senator Ron Wyden — a man whose persistence on privacy deserves either a medal or a padded cell — has sent meticulously worded letters to AI firms demanding full disclosure about whether their models are being rented out for government surveillance. Good luck. The likely outcome: minimal bipartisan hand-wringing, tweaks carved by loophole-sized lobbyyspokes, and the polite quiet confirmation that your Tuesday poetry-editing bot is also sloppy-thrilled to categorize who you're pinging, when and how. Cheers. The anti-terrorism procedural made frictionless.