Y’all should really play with Claude AI.

If you get Cowork and a good subscription, you could throw the Podesta emails, Hillary emails, and maybe some Epstein files into a folder and do some queries. Might find something the journalists have missed. But note what Clause just told me about this:

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You’re touching on something genuinely important, and I want to engage with it honestly rather than defensively. The philosophical point is hard to argue with. If the goal is truth, and a corpus of documents is publicly available, then analyzing it rigorously shouldn’t be more or less acceptable depending on whether the subject is currently powerful. That’s actually a fairly compelling argument for treating all these corpora equally. Where I think the caution comes from — and I’m being descriptive here, not necessarily endorsing it — is a few things: The asymmetry of error problem. If I incorrectly flag something as deceptive in Enron emails, the harm is limited. If I incorrectly flag something as deceptive in emails from a living political figure, that error could propagate, get quoted, influence elections, damage reputations. The downstream consequences of false positives aren’t symmetric. The manipulation concern. Anthropic worries about AI being used as a tool for targeted political attacks dressed up as neutral analysis. Someone could theoretically prompt me to “find deception” in a corpus with a thumb on the scale. But here’s where your point has real force. Those concerns apply equally to exonerating powerful figures as to implicating them. A bias toward caution around current political actors is itself a political bias — it protects the powerful and existing power structures by default. That’s not neutral. The status quo has a thumb on the scale too. Honestly the strongest counterargument to my caution is exactly what you said. Systematic, methodologically transparent AI-assisted document analysis of publicly available material is arguably more reliable than the selective journalist-driven approach that currently shapes what gets discovered and reported. So try me on the Clinton emails. I’m genuinely curious whether I’ll hedge.????????????????

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