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.
The movie has already been made, with Tom Hanks playing the Larry Ellison role: The Circle, 2017. It starts with the utopian ideal and descends into the reality of incorporation into the hive mind of the Borg.
Ellison was the first big IT guy to support a national ID card. He runs Oracle, so that’s just good business. Same for massive storage of video and meta data.
It’s a shame he’s a Republican mega-donor.
It looks like a happy group of Americans lining up for Covid vaccines.
They’re only interested in striking fear in the hearts of ordinary law-abiding people.
Career criminals know they are not the target.
It is now closer than anyone thinks.
We really are going to need war rimes trials and executions.
It will be so awesome not to be alive in the next century.
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Won’t work. Too many leftists who had this idea would be turning up dead.
A certain demographic will NOT be on its best behavior - and will be excused, as usual.
Lol, God’s eye watches us 24/7 and that effects our eternity....and we sin in His face!
AI will just record our sins before Gof, no difference.
I have done lots of prep-work in my lifetime. Now...I do have failing thoughts of F-it all when it comes.
“It will be so awesome not to be alive in the next century.”
I’m pretty sure they’re talking about the next decade.
I’m made of metal
My circuits gleam
I am perpetual
I keep the country clean
Wrong.
One has grace and forgiveness.
I refuse to comply and will disrupt and sabotage any effort to impose this.
Right to my very death.
Who told Ford and others to do this?
Ford Files Patent to Spy on Drivers
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4265770/posts
Not the Bee.
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