Political speech about AI surveillance has been running at a high level of abstraction for years — 'companies are collecting data,' 'governments are building profiles,' 'the infrastructure of control is expanding.' What AOC and Sanders did this week is different in kind. By naming Palantir as the company mining Americans' data and routing it to the government [19], and by quoting Larry Ellison's own surveillance prediction back at him , they created a situation where denial requires a specific rebuttal rather than a general reassurance. That is a deliberate rhetorical…