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It's sad that "big brother" has lost the connotation of a citizen-operated panopticon, because I think that concern is far more immediately pressing.
I can't be the only one thinking we've passed 1984 already?
Is there a telestrator in your living room that will cause you to go to jail if you mutter something negative about the government?
Much more sophisticated than jail.
I can't be the only one thinking we've passed 1984 already?
Is there a telestrator in your living room that will cause you to go to jail if you mutter something negative about the government?
I don't want to cast the central concern as trivial, because it's real, BUT, c'mon, "beating China in AI is imperative?" Grow up. To "beat" anybody (and for that matter to have any sort of claim to deserving to "win" anything), you would want to "beat China at Not-Being-A-Repressive-Dystopia" wouldn't you? Perhaps including "beating China at Not-Using-AI-To-Be-A-Repressive-Dystopia?"
Is AI really the threat, or is it really the increasingly authoritarian nature of Big Tech itself?
I think it's important to note here that new technologies that have the potential for oppression can be used not only by authoritarian governments but by liberal-democratic ones as well (see: CIA programs, Snowden leaks, etc) and private companies.
I can't be the only one thinking we've passed 1984 already?
I personally believe we crossed that Rubicon once we granted the play store our vaccination status, contact tracing strangers etc. That was the undeniable shift towards hard totalitarianism.
Google and Facebook have way more on me than a telestrator ever could. It's almost God like what they can see. They've made deals to share this with the Gov to bypass constitutional limitations.