Big Brother, The Thought Police and AI algorithms now have their sights set upon all of us?
You’ve Been Flagged as a Threat: Predictive AI Technology Puts a Target on Your Back
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
May 10, 2022
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/youve_been_flagged_as_a_threat_predictive_ai_technology_puts_a_target_on_your_back
“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.”—Milton Friedman
Key excerpt from article above:
It’s just a matter of time before you find yourself wrongly accused, investigated and confronted by police based on a data-driven algorithm or risk assessment culled together by a computer program run by artificial intelligence.
This is precrime, straight out of the realm of dystopian science fiction movies such as‘Minority Report,’ which aims to prevent crimes before they happen, but in fact, it’s just another means of getting the citizenry in the government’s crosshairs in order to lock down the nation.
It used to be that every person had the right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty, and the burden of proof rested with one’s accusers. That assumption of innocence has since been turned on its head by a surveillance state that renders us all suspects and overcriminalization which renders us all potentially guilty of some wrongdoing or other.
Combine predictive AI technology with surveillance and overcriminalization, then add militarized police crashing through doors in the middle of the night to serve a routine warrant, and you’ll be lucky to escape with your life.
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I highly recommend everybody read the full article above contained within the link provided, it really tells us all about the surveillance state currently being fully implemented and imposed, and IMHO being imposed illegally upon every American citizen. Whether we know it to not doesn't really matter at this point. I seem to recall there used to be a time when court ordered warrants were needed before you could monitor private citizens. Doesn't our US Constitution protect all of us from such unlawful surveillance?
Technology and the police state have become a marriage made in hell. Can't we all agree it's becoming much too easy for the government to monitor every aspect of a private citizen's life?
With the advent of social scoring, the government is now keeping tabs on every US citizen. All our online behavior is carefully being monitored by AI technology, which in essence is forming an electronic dossier on all of us, based upon everything we do in our life. In addition everything we do outside the internet is also monitored. From the energy we use, to the jobs we work, to the items we buy, to the stores we frequent, to the churches we attend, along with all the other organizations we belong to, we are being monitored. Doesn't everybody love that catch-phrase about being all connected? Sounds good right?
Aren't we all glad we have agreed to have those "smart" meters installed within our homes and aren't we glad almost all of us joined up for those reward programs, regarding stores and credit cards? Aren't we all glad we now carry cell phones with us everywhere we go? Aren't we all glad we have given our phone numbers, mailing addresses and email addresses to the businesses who have asked us for them? That five or ten dollar gift card was surely worth it?
Enjoying our big screen "smart" televisions and Alexa/Siri devices, aren't we all? Aren't "smart" appliances cool? I mean everybody needs to be alerted when they run out of milk or eggs? We can't be bothered to just look in the refrigerator ourselves, right?
What could ever possibly go wrong? Big Brother is our new best friend. Are we slowly coming to the grips with the reality that the trade-off between personal privacy/freedom and convenience, just might not be worth it?
Especially if all this illegal tracking can lead to our arrest for a crime we never committed? Would we have signed onto all this "smart" stuff, if we actually knew the endgame was a new world order totalitarian technocratic police state? Are we happy with a prospective bureaucratic thought police which is ready to pounce on all of us, based upon some social credit score and or AI algorithm that has gone rogue?
Personal privacy and individual freedom/liberty are essential to any society, which expects to live free. When we give them both up so easily, there literally can be severe repercussions.
How far and wide will a technocracy's net have to reach before we lose everything we consider essential and precious within our family's life? When will we all come to realize that having convenience as our top priority eventually leads to dystopia?
I wish all of us would wake up to the dangers that the leftist technocrats are unleashing upon the world right now. Freedom and personal privacy are precious commodities. Once they become lost, we almost can never get them back.
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead
May 10, 2022
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/youve_been_flagged_as_a_threat_predictive_ai_technology_puts_a_target_on_your_back
“The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse.”—Milton Friedman
Key excerpt from article above:
It’s just a matter of time before you find yourself wrongly accused, investigated and confronted by police based on a data-driven algorithm or risk assessment culled together by a computer program run by artificial intelligence.
This is precrime, straight out of the realm of dystopian science fiction movies such as‘Minority Report,’ which aims to prevent crimes before they happen, but in fact, it’s just another means of getting the citizenry in the government’s crosshairs in order to lock down the nation.
It used to be that every person had the right to be assumed innocent until proven guilty, and the burden of proof rested with one’s accusers. That assumption of innocence has since been turned on its head by a surveillance state that renders us all suspects and overcriminalization which renders us all potentially guilty of some wrongdoing or other.
Combine predictive AI technology with surveillance and overcriminalization, then add militarized police crashing through doors in the middle of the night to serve a routine warrant, and you’ll be lucky to escape with your life.
----------------------------------------------------------
I highly recommend everybody read the full article above contained within the link provided, it really tells us all about the surveillance state currently being fully implemented and imposed, and IMHO being imposed illegally upon every American citizen. Whether we know it to not doesn't really matter at this point. I seem to recall there used to be a time when court ordered warrants were needed before you could monitor private citizens. Doesn't our US Constitution protect all of us from such unlawful surveillance?
Technology and the police state have become a marriage made in hell. Can't we all agree it's becoming much too easy for the government to monitor every aspect of a private citizen's life?
With the advent of social scoring, the government is now keeping tabs on every US citizen. All our online behavior is carefully being monitored by AI technology, which in essence is forming an electronic dossier on all of us, based upon everything we do in our life. In addition everything we do outside the internet is also monitored. From the energy we use, to the jobs we work, to the items we buy, to the stores we frequent, to the churches we attend, along with all the other organizations we belong to, we are being monitored. Doesn't everybody love that catch-phrase about being all connected? Sounds good right?
Aren't we all glad we have agreed to have those "smart" meters installed within our homes and aren't we glad almost all of us joined up for those reward programs, regarding stores and credit cards? Aren't we all glad we now carry cell phones with us everywhere we go? Aren't we all glad we have given our phone numbers, mailing addresses and email addresses to the businesses who have asked us for them? That five or ten dollar gift card was surely worth it?
Enjoying our big screen "smart" televisions and Alexa/Siri devices, aren't we all? Aren't "smart" appliances cool? I mean everybody needs to be alerted when they run out of milk or eggs? We can't be bothered to just look in the refrigerator ourselves, right?
What could ever possibly go wrong? Big Brother is our new best friend. Are we slowly coming to the grips with the reality that the trade-off between personal privacy/freedom and convenience, just might not be worth it?
Especially if all this illegal tracking can lead to our arrest for a crime we never committed? Would we have signed onto all this "smart" stuff, if we actually knew the endgame was a new world order totalitarian technocratic police state? Are we happy with a prospective bureaucratic thought police which is ready to pounce on all of us, based upon some social credit score and or AI algorithm that has gone rogue?
Personal privacy and individual freedom/liberty are essential to any society, which expects to live free. When we give them both up so easily, there literally can be severe repercussions.
How far and wide will a technocracy's net have to reach before we lose everything we consider essential and precious within our family's life? When will we all come to realize that having convenience as our top priority eventually leads to dystopia?
I wish all of us would wake up to the dangers that the leftist technocrats are unleashing upon the world right now. Freedom and personal privacy are precious commodities. Once they become lost, we almost can never get them back.
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