# Facebook will become more powerful than the NSA in less than 10 years — unless we stop it

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**Created:** [29 December 2017 01:00 UTC](https://ageoftransformation.discourse.group/t/facebook-will-become-more-powerful-than-the-nsa-in-less-than-10-years-unless-we-stop-it/122 "2017-12-29T01:00:00Z")\
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Facebook is on track to become more powerful than the National Security Agency — so says a senior advisor to the US military intelligence community who predicted the rise of artificial intelligence and robot warfare. In less than a decade, Facebook’s growth will mean it potentially has the ability to monitor almost everyone on the planet. This will make the firm more powerful than any other government contractor in the world.

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This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at [https://ageoftransformation.org/facebook-will-become-more-powerful-than-the-nsa-in-less-than-10-years-unless-we-stop-it/](https://ageoftransformation.org/facebook-will-become-more-powerful-than-the-nsa-in-less-than-10-years-unless-we-stop-it/)