Comment by isaacremuant
4 months ago
> At least 2 billion people live in dictatorships. AI has the potential to become a tool of mass surveillance and total oppression from which those countries will never recover because just like the models can detect a woman is pregnant before she knows it, it will detect a dissenter long before dissent turns into resistance.
It already works like this in your precious western democracies and they didn't need AI to be authoritarian total surveillance states in spirit, with quite a lot of support from a propagandized populace that begged for or pretended to agree with the infringement of their civil rights because of terrorism, drugs, covid or protecting the poor poor children.
You can combat tech with legislation and culture but the legislation and culture were way beyond the tech in being extremely authoritian in the first place.
I don't know man. All this "tech" didn't see AOC, Sanders, and other 'radicals' coming. The parties actually had to expend effort after the fact to delegitimize them and have to continue to do so for additional candidates that come along(Jamal Bowman, Cori Bush, etc.)