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.

[blam]

"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?"

Remember that every branch of government at every level is loaded with the likes of LOIS LERNER.

[blam]

"They [the FBI] can find them, Nully. They just don’t want to. The FBI and the Left play on and for the same team. To wit} the Left, A/K.A, the Democrat Party, A/K/A the Communists Party, A/K/A the Socialists. Not the Constitution and not the American People. Don’t let them fool you."

I was listening to Rush the day a caller asked him if he thought that Obama had told Lois Lerner what to do. Rush said no, she's there because she already knows what to do. These people are everywhere in government...everywhere!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

I think the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty Four was *realized* in 1984. But isn’t it arrogant to think that “history ended” at that time? That is, why would the forces that *created* the dystopia *stop* bringing about that chaos?

It is now 2021, 37 years later. Our technology is markedly different from the way it was. Comparatively, in the UK there are now 5.2 MILLION CCTV cameras. Lord knows how many such public and private cameras now exist in the US.

The NSA actually built a gigantic data library in Utah.

“The 1.5 billion-dollar one million square-foot Bluffdale / Camp Williams LEED Silver facility houses a 100,000 sq-ft mission critical Tier III data center.”

And yet, the *vast* amount of data it consumes and archives is essentially worthless.

But that is the “dystopian threshold”. That dystopian governments over time become obsessed with useless trivia, *and ignore the big, important things that government is supposed to do*.

East Germany is a great example. At the end, almost half its people had been coerced to spy on the other half. And yet, its infrastructure was collapsing. Many consumer goods were rare or unavailable. Pollution was horrific, etc.

And that is how dystopian societies end. Not with a bang, but with a shrug.

[sport]

You are correct. Hitler did not tell his henchmen what to do when he put them in charge of one of his Programs. They knew what to do. Just as Hitler’s henchmen did his bidding without instructions. So did obama’s. And so will Biden’s and Harris’ or Harris’ and Biden’s henchmen.

[SaveFerris]

Too late, Brad

[Vaduz]

Instruction manual for AI tech companies indeed.

[livius]

Very well said.

[Nifster]

No kidding

[American in Israel]

The only truth in Artificial Intelligence is a bunch of programmers pretending to be intelligent.

[Pajamajan]

Good for him that he is speaking out, trying to warn people....but.....er..ehm..he may be a bit confused about which team he is playing for, in the game of "globalists trying to enslave the world" vs. "everyone who wants to be free"?

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