CHAPTER 6A New Internet, Data Banks and Digital World War
By Lubna Yusuf1
1Founder, La Legal
We are surrounded by warnings of a media dystopia, led by artificial intelligence, which will disrupt the way we perceive the world and ourselves. The boundaries between real and virtual realities are fast diminishing and the sci-fi movie scenarios of our youth no longer seem so far-fetched. With algorithms making decisions for us and data systems constantly monitoring us, where will machine learning and deep tech lead human cognition? Are we destined to lose our learning capabilities, with machines programmed to do all the “thinking”? If future decision-making is based more upon results of data analytics than on human reasoning, a whole new concept of human intelligence is set to evolve. The future that awaits us is the human-AI convergence: a whole new interdependence between ourselves, machines, data and numbers.
The Future of Artificial Intelligence
In recent times, Google pulled out of a Department of Defense contract and called on the US government to formalize rules on the use of AI and Amazon joined Microsoft in calling for regulations on facial recognition. While seemingly significant now, corporate stances of this kind may soon be nothing more than a relic of the past, if privacy becomes a lost concept as the commercialization and trading of data become more commonplace.
In much the same way as blood and sperm banks exist today, it is likely that in the future there will ...
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