Happy Tuesday, dear Kruiser Morning Briefing friends. Sophrenda rather enjoyed the feeling of euphoria she got after helping a neighbor properly Bedazzle a pair of chaps.

I have been very casually reading about advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) for several years. While I've never taken a deep dive into learning a lot about it, I have maintained a genuine interest that bordered on fascination with the subject. The dire warnings about what AI could become never fazed me much.

Now that AI is exploding much faster than I thought it would, a creep factor is making me regret not being a little more fazed.

We've had a couple of posts here in the last few days highlighting some of AI's more annoying aspects. The first was one that Ben wrote over the weekend:

When the government sets about to marry its limitless appetite for social control with the seemingly limitless computing power of artificial intelligence, the end result is destined to be Orwell's "thoughtcrime" – a concept that was once exclusively in the domain of speculative fiction — becoming reality. Life imitates art, it seems.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP), under the umbrella of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), has reportedly been partnering with an AI tech firm called Fivecast to deploy social media surveillance software that, according to its proprietor, purportedly detects "problematic" emotions of social media users and subsequently reports them to law enforcement for further action.