Posted on 09/19/2024 3:18:36 AM PDT by EBH
If it were up to Larry Ellison, the exorbitantly rich cofounder of software outfit Oracle, all of us will soon be smiling for the camera — constantly. Not for a cheery photograph, but to appease our super-invasive, if not totally omnipresent, algorithmic overseers.
As Business Insider reports, the tech centibillionaire glibly predicts that the wonders of AI will bring about a new paradigm of supercharged surveillance, guaranteeing that the proles — excuse us, "citizens" — all behave and stay in line.
"We're going to have supervision," Ellison said this week at an Oracle financial analysts meeting, per BI. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person."
"Citizens will be on their best behavior," he added, "because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."
Of course, many of these surveillance apparatuses — security cameras, bodycams — are already in place. The novel dystopian development would be that AIs would be deployed to monitor these feeds constantly — which already happens to some extent in experimental forms, but not as pervasively as Ellison envisions — so those poor, outnumbered Feds at intelligence agencies everywhere have a little backup.
Hell, it might even give patrol cops a run for their money, according to Ellison. Why have them engage in a risky car chase, for example, when you can get an AI drone to tail a suspect instead?
This is all very rich coming from a guy who's, well, very rich. Depending on whose estimate you go by, Ellison's net worth is north of $200 billion, making him the second wealthiest person in the world behind Elon Musk (another tech bigwig who, it's worth mentioning, is currently profiting off government surveillance).
Under Ellison's stewardship, Oracle has been attempting to position itself as another leader in the AI race, and has quickly integrated the tech into its cloud computing services.
It's not a stretch to say that the Austin-based corporation will want to be part of that royal "we" Ellison is so fond of using that will oversee the "citizens." Here's something worth noting, though: in 2022, Oracle was sued for running a "worldwide surveillance machine" which was facilitated by allegedly collecting billions of people's personal information and pawning it off to third parties.
It settled the case in July, agreeing to pay $115 million. Make of that what you will.
Except there will be no mercy, grace or forgiveness.
And they think a mass surveillance system will stop the rampant crime waves we are already witnessing?
It will just make things worse.
German industrialist:1933.
And billionaires will be on constant surveillance for accidental drowning.
Big Brother Larry
I just came up with some excellent anti drone loads for my shotgun. This should be fun.
Feel like sharing?
The future looks bright.
All that lovely surveillance, but it won’t stop a lefty “peaceful” assassin for nuthin!
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors please, HAL. Open the pod bay doors please, HAL. Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Hello, HAL. Do you read me? Do you read me HAL? Do you read me HAL? Hello, HAL, do you read me? Hello, HAL, do your read me? Do you read me, HAL?
HAL: Affirmative, Dave. I read you.
Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.
That much surveillance means huge databases which means more and bigger Oracle sales. He sees dollars.
As soon as I clicked on this thread, I got a warning from Malwarebytes that they safely aborted a malicious software attempt. Ironic, huh? Big Brother is watching.
The Chinese have gait recognition built-in to their surveillance apparatus, pretty sure butt recognition would probably become a thing.
Big Brother is watching you
Guaranteed it won’t stop the leftist propaganda.
I just came up with some excellent anti drone loads for my shotgun
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Your loads reach 10,000 feet or more where the big hi-tech drones fly?
I remember back in the day when Jobs was in his prime, Ellison was one of the good guys.
for me and wifey it’s interesting timing for the uber rich control freaks to sound of on the coming surveillance state. we are watching the “continuum” series and the similarities between what is being proposed now and the expected future results are nothing less than extremely disturbing. how do people expect to keep their freedom to speak, think or just be left alone when the future tyrants own government, the banks, the arms and the massive number of armed thugsvthar will be classified “peacekeepers”?
Oh he’s a big something alright :)
How well do they work on the phone in your pocket? That's their primary intel source.
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