Microsoft President Warns 2024 Will Look Like Orwell’s ‘1984’ If We Don’t Stop AI Police State

Zubu Brothers ^ | 5-29-2021

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George Orwell’s dystopian vision written in his book “Nineteen Eighty-Four” could become a reality by 2024 as artificial intelligence technology becomes the all-seeing eye, a top Microsoft executive warned Thursday.

Microsoft President Brad Smith told BBC’s Panorama George Orwell’s 1984 “could come to pass in 2024” if government regulation doesn’t protect the public against intrusive artificial intelligence surveillance.

“I’m constantly reminded of George Orwell’s lessons in his book ‘1984.’ You know the fundamental story … was about a government who could see everything that everyone did and hear everything that everyone said all the time,” Smith said on BBC while chatting about China’s use of artificial intelligence to monitor its citizens.

“Well, that didn’t come to pass in 1984, but if we’re not careful, that could come to pass in 2024,” Smith continued.

“If we don’t enact the laws that will protect the public in the future, we are going to find the technology racing ahead, and it’s going to be very difficult to catch up.”

He warned that Orwell’s view of a government spying on its citizens around the clock is already a reality in some parts of the world.

Artificial intelligence-led totalitarianism, such as in China, has wiped away the freedoms of its citizens and transformed them into obedient members of the state. A social credit score keeps citizens in check.

To prevent such a dystopia in the West, lawmakers need to act now, explained Smith.

In 2019, the billionaire investor Peter Thiel insisted that artificial intelligence was “literally communist.”

He said artificial intelligence concentrates power to monitor citizens. These surveillance tools know more about a person than they know about themselves.

Artificial intelligence is a crucial tool for governments to adopt an Orwellian state of surveillance and control.

But can we trust lawmakers and “Big Tech” who want to consolidate power to prevent such a dystopia?

It’s hard to say, considering politicians have only one objective: stay in power.

Suppose we can’t trust politicians to protect our freedoms and interests; instead, they side with mega-corporations. In that case, we must raise our understanding of privacy shields that protect us from artificial intelligence spying on us.

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I posted Brad Smith's picture because I'm surprised that a White male is still in charge of anything these days.

One of my favorite Orwell quotes:

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right. -- George Orwell, "1984"

[EEGator]

“I posted Brad Smith’s picture because I’m surprised that a White male is still in charge of anything these days.”

He must be gay, or something weird...

[BipolarBob]

He may be like me. I identify as transvaccite. I wasn’t born vaccinated but I now identify as vaccinated. Therefore I’m special.

[9YearLurker]

So is he trying to separate himself from Gates and his agenda, as they are increasingly questioned?

[EEGator]

I also identify as vaccinated.

[Erik Latranyi]

There will be no privacy in the future, he is right.

[polymuser]

Leftists have progressed too far already, control too much at present.

The book 1984, Part 3, Chapter 3, O’Brien to Smith:

“...The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently.

We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites.

The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal.

We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.

The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.

Now do you begin to understand me?’ “

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AI Used To Identify Thieves In Walmart, USA

I read a science article about these Walmart cameras/AI software. It said that they had facial recognition capability and could read the stress lines on faces and determine from those lines whether a person had or was going to steal something.

[Sirius Lee]

determine from those lines whether a person had or was going to steal something.

I was hoping for a "Star Trek" kind of future. Not "Minority Report."

[Alas Babylon!]

Smith is a lawyer and heads Microsoft’s legal department, which was actually one of their largest operations, ans they get sued around the globe on an almost daily basis.

Satya Nadella is still the CEO of Microsoft, and is in charge.

[Spok]

The lefties who warn us about a police state will be bringing us into a police state, as Antifa is spreading fascism. Hillary warned us about people jeopardizing democracy by not accepting election results, knowing that the biggest election fraud in history was in the making. They tell us what they’re up to by accusing others of their own behavior.

[Starcitizen]

He isn’t really in charge.

The former H1B scumbag Indian Satya Nadella is. Since he has been CEO, the percentage of Indians employed in the US at Microsoft has risen to 35% from basically nothing in 2014.

https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/19/18508013/microsoft-pro-diversity-hiring-inclusion-employee-criticism-claims

[DesertRhino]

Microsoft, saving us from AI. Wants legislation...

Lol

[kjam22]

It is not going to be good....

[radmanptn]

But can their AI tell the difference between the stress lines caused by someone about to steal something and the stress lines caused by being so aggravated that the person is just going to leave their cart full of stuff in front of the checkout line and just walk out of the store?

[McGruff]

You will be assimilated.

[livius]

I don’t know. It is a little surprising that he should be saying this.

That said, I see nothing but oppression in our future...while at the same time wondering why a government should be so obsessed with knowing everything about every citizen, no matter how law abiding and innocent they may be.

The new tax bill is going to allow the government - and 87,000 new IRS agents - to electronically track every transaction in your checking account, no matter how small, as well as your PayPal and Venmo purchases, and in fact, any financial exchange. And it’s not directed at the wealthy, because they don’t keep their money in their checking accounts. It’s directed at the inoffensive little guy.

[radmanptn]

I think Microsoft’s Brad Smith has a little cognitive dissonance going on if he expects government regulation to prevent “1984” style government desire to see hear and control everything a person does.

[MinorityRepublican]

Big Tech has effectively immersed itself into the Democratic Party so we’re on a fast track to a future that looks like a 1984 dystopia until we stop them.

[msrngtp2002]

So this ai stuff is selective. It can detect every day people doing normal stuff but can’t be used effectively to figure out who these antifa people are so law enforcement can find them?