The popularity of “smart assistants” like Google Home or Amazon Alexa could lead to increased privacy violations. The Daily Mail reports:
Smart assistants could soon come with a ‘moral AI’ to decide whether to report their owners for breaking the law.
That’s the suggestion of academics at who say that household gadgets like the Amazon Echo and Google Home should be enhanced with ethical smart software.
This would let them to weigh-up whether to report illegal activity to the police, effectively putting millions of people under constant surveillance.
Academics at the University of Bergen, Norway, touted the idea at the ACM conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society in Hawaii.
The American public should be vigilant to this new threat, as companies collecting information could just as readily pass it on to the government to create a police state.
There’s a reason those Norwegians didn’t say any such thing in their home country. Such a device would be contrary to the EU GDPR.
This technology is merely a facilitator. The real issues are the loss of individual liberty and the unconstitutional assumption of powers by the Federal Government.
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.” — Thomas Jefferson
Been Warnin’ people about this FOR YEARS. WHY ON EARTH would anyone allow an open microphone attached to the internet into their home? Car? Not to mention Cameras…
Proud to be a luddite 🙂
It isn’t technology that makes a police state possible. They have existed in one form or another for centuries. Before technology, tyrants relied upon neighbors to keep watch on other neighbors. However, technology does guarantee that we are losing what little privacy remains in our society, and that is a hair-raising realization. This is the reality that exists even now; it only gets worse in the future.
It’s coming!! Be prepared!! The nearly 60 years of anti-Christ, anti-American policies and the take over of the education system is the exact thing Khrushchev said would happen. Destroy us without firing a shot! The REAL collusion IS the DEMON RAT PARTY!! TRUMP 2020!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keith you are exactly spot on here! In addition gang and coming from the technology arena almost 50 years, I can say first hand that this technology is already out and being beta tested (in real form) throughout the USA plus other areas of different countries, and this is not “conspiracy” stuff either, it is real.
The key here is you can’t stop this technology from spreading and growing, but you can stop this dead in it’s tracks by constantly questioning one thing? To always question any and all “PEOPLE” or “GROUPS” that support this technology to ask this one cannot be disputed question to them?
“OF ALL HUMANS, WHO IS TO BE CONSIDERED RIGHTEOUS AND WITHOUT SIN ENOUGH AND/OR IS GOD OR HAS GOD SKILLS & THE LACK OF SINS TO DETERMINE WHAT IS CONSIDERED MORALLY ACCEPTABLE, OR EVEN WHO IS TO WRITE THE SOFTWARE TO DETERMINE WHO KNOWS 100% OF THE LAW 24/7/365 AM and PM and has king like interpretation and morals of “ALL” USA/International/Universe laws that it takes and is required to write this type of code. It will fail, as long as we call it out, or shut it down as it attempts to grow.
I submit gang, that as long as “WE” as the people “DO NOT ALLOW EVEN ONE HUMAN PERSON AND/OR GROUP TO UNDERTAKE THE ROLE OF DECISION MAKER(S) in any manner or form, then this technology will never be able to grab hold, especially here in America.
We “M U S T” at all costs fight and defeat any person or group who even closely attempts to regulate what “THEY”, (whoever they are or may be) consider to be sinless and morally acceptable w/o first checking their own house for their own sins. They will always lose!
Once that person and/or group attempts this very egregious act, against GOD and mankind, they will be called out and they will run for cover from the hordes of Americans and other nations that will not allow this to grab root! PERIOD!
What exactly has Trump done to scale back surveillance? I know he doesn’t listen to the intelligence he gets and instead listens to Fox News, but I haven’t seen any indication that he has put any stop to surveillance.
This sounds just like a line out of Orson Wells’ 1984. Legalized Marijuana is just like Elvis Drugs in THX 1138.
I am certain that people have no idea as to the degree that they are being watched. We are well beyond police state.
It’s the Bush administration that established to covert wiretapping of phone conversations in the US. Pointing the finger at Democrats is willful ignorance, although the Obama administration was just as bad. The ACLU tried and failed to stop the practice. What did Republican congressmen do? NOTHING. Didn’t even raise a peep. The Republicans are not your friends on this issue.
AOC will regulate what you can eat–no more beef. Where you live–pack you into state sponsored housing just like Soviet Russia, etc. Take your guns–revoking the 2nd. Forget about your carefree life and liberties–you won’t have any. Only the elite–the Clintons, the Bushes, “dimocrat” party members, etc.
Another civil war is coming. The enemy is within, placed there by decades of socialistic/communistic scheming. Get ready.
The two parties cannot get together to agree on any thing. Why would they ever have a civil war to keep each other? The way the two parties are now, the only solution that I could see them reaching a point of agreement is how to decide to divide the U.S.A. Into a liberal America and a conservative america.
Let’s get on with that project!!!
The Biggest threat is how Police are trained and chosen, the Police are no longer protecting the ordinary man, they now protect and serve at the whim of the elite, if their told to stand down by the elite, they obey, which also makes them a political force. So no this tech does not make a Police State possible, because it looks more and more like it’s already in force, it’s just another piece of control tech to add to those already in place. The book 1994 is already taking shape in our society, and most of Marx’s ten planks from his Communist Manifesto are already in place, and those that are not, they are working hard to make them flourish.
George Orwell’s “1984” —-
Remember when blocks of States lost power in grids at a time– required to boot survelliance system… with AI.
Duh- Remember Snowdan, Wikileaks revelations? What about the warning that every internet connection is monitored and/or can be hacked? You are essentially consenting to what you do in the privacy of your home being watched and monitored by an all seeing eye!
Police departments and courts in the United States have ALREADY successfully subpoenaed Alexa records and gotten convictions.
BIG BROTHER IS LISTENING
“Artificial Intelligence, ETHICS and Society”
Hmmmm… they have a strange sense of “ethics”
I won’t have one of these “assistants” in my house! Google already spies on us via our Android phones, our searches and (if you’re foolish enough to use one) our gmail accounts. They’ve already proven they’re more than willing to cooperate with overbearing government intrusion, whether it’s the Communist Chinese or the Communist DemocRATs. Don’t get me started on Facecrack . . .
People need to pose the following questions to themselves. Regarding these “digital assistants”, what price glory? Do I really need them? What is their ultimate cost, not only in money, dollars or whatever currency, but in privacy lost, or to cheaply sold?
The commiecrats would love this. Give em an inch and they’ll take a mile.