US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows
2026-05-26 · WIRED
The FBI and DHS are now tracking 'anti-tech extremism' as a formal threat category because Americans are so fed up with AI stealing their jobs and data centers invading their neighborhoods. Nothing says 'everything is fine' like needing a whole new federal threat classification for how much people hate your technology. Turns out the real AI safety problem isn't alignment — it's that regular people want to throw rocks at data centers.