Is Contact Tracing a Simple Answer to COVID Lockdowns?
An engineering professor at the University of Austin asks us to look at the costs and benefitsThe conventional science fiction fear of a superintelligent AI taking over the planet and ridding it of pesky humans distracts our attention from a much more realistic threat: Artificial intelligence (AI) makes both government and corporate surveillance much easier, cheaper, and more useful—whether it is in average citizens’ interests or not. If we are lucky, this will be the decade when we address the implications of that fact.
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