Denyse O'Leary

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 12, 2018

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy

Tagged
corporate surveillance, Surveillance}

AI Can Mean Ultimate Big Surveillance

_{That’s what we should really worry about} _{Denyse O'Leary

July 12, 2018

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Artificial Intelligence, Data Privacy}

The celebrity worry about superintelligent AI taking over and getting rid of us humans distracts our attention from a real-world fact: Artificial intelligence (AI) maximizes the opportunities while crashing the costs of corporate and government surveillance. Both have grown massively in recent years, with predictable results. The surveillants don’t by any means want to get rid of us. They want to take over and run our lives, ostensibly for our own good but certainly for theirs.

Self-driving cars hit an unnoticed pothole

_{Denyse O'Leary

July 12, 2018

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Applied Intelligence}

Brandom at The Verge fears that self-driving cars might be hitting an “AI roadblock.” On its face, full autonomy seems closer than ever. Waymo is already testing cars on limited-but-public roads in Arizona. Tesla and a host of other imitators already sell a limited form of Autopilot, counting on drivers to intervene if anything unexpected happens. There have been a few crashes, some deadly, but as long as the systems keep improving, the logic goes, we can’t be that far from not having to intervene at all. “Not having to intervene at all”? One is reminded of the fellow in C. S. Lewis’s anecdote who, when he heard that a more modern stove would cut his fuel bill in half, Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 9, 2018

Categorized
Work

Tagged
Apocalypticism, Automation, economic disparity, Featured, Jay Richards, The Human Advantage, Unemployment, Virginia Eubanks}

Will AI lead to mass joblessness and social unrest?

_{Denyse O'Leary

July 9, 2018

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Work}

A 2018 book by political scientist Virginia Eubanks, Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor argues that it will: “automated systems entrench social and economic inequality by design and undermine private and public welfare.”