# Power, Surveillance, and Control

AI amplifies existing power structures and creates new forms of control. This sub-article expands [Section 3.2 of Philosophy](../philosophy.md).

## Surveillance
- Facial recognition, predictive policing, and profiling raise civil-liberties concerns.
- Systems can identify, track, and influence populations at scale.

## Platform Power
- A few corporations control frontier compute, data, and models.
- Concentration creates dependencies and reduces competition.

## National Strategies
- States fund AI for economic and military advantage.
- Export controls and compute governance emerge to manage strategic assets.

## Control and Oversight
- Who audits powerful systems? How do governments regulate?
- Compute governance, model licensing, and transparency regimes are debated.

## Why It Matters
AI can centralize power; governance must address concentration, privacy, and accountability.

## Sources
- Zuboff, S. (2019). *The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.*
- Crawford, K. (2021). *Atlas of AI.*

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