So this was inevitable. The ability to replace labor in a cost-effective way isn't quite there yet but it's more than good enough for sifting through visual, audio, textual data and compiling dossiers and threat reports on tens, hundreds of millions of people. The US government can and will print money for such a perfect, inescapable panopticon which promises total visibility and control.

They've always surveilled their users, did experiments, used their input as training data etc...