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Posted on 11/12/2023 11:45:31 AM PST by Lazamataz
Nearly everyone has had the experience of being micromanaged at work, and it is a very oppressive work situation. Micromanagement exhibits lack of trust on the part of your supervisor, reduces productivity, and above all, is highly stressful and counter to human nature.
How would you like it if your private life β your day-to-day affairs β were micromanaged? I suspect you would violently balk at the idea. Yet, it is coming. In some parts of the globe, one piece is already in place, that of the Social Credit Score introduced by and managed by the government of China.
The Social Credit Score system is fundamentally oppressive, especially when wielded by a government. When a government implements this sort of system, any deviation from any official government narrative results in a lower score and is a form of punishment. A person with a low Social Credit Score can be (and is) denied essential services and products.
How can this oppressive constraint on thought, speech, and action be enforced? George Orwell, author of the dystopian novel 1984, envisioned a world with cameras virtually everywhere. One never knew whether they were being watched or not and had to assume that they were being watched. Yet, even in Orwellβs novel, there was not enough manpower to oversee all people at all times.
Enter Artificial Intelligence. I foresee a day in which every person is assigned a slice of the processor time in a series of AI Oversight and Monitoring programs, and whoβs every action and utterance is closely monitored. The emergence of Natural Language Processor programming informs us that such an ability is very near, and nearly every government β even the formerly-free Constitutional Republic of America β would be keen to implement such a framework. This would allow governments to closely monitor any forms of resistance and squash any attempts to deviate from official government wishes.
We have already seen what has been happening to people who objected to the Covid Vaccine and held forth opinions that differed from what the governments of the world wished to put forth: They were ridiculed in a compliant media, and their views were called Disinformation. In the richness of time, much of what the objectors were asserting turned out to be correct, and it was world governments who were engaged in Disinformation. We also see the similar behavior as regards the obviously stolen election of 2020.
Let us leave aside the subject of ever-present AI monitoring, however horrific and soul-crushing such a system would be. Let us turn to how each of us forms our worldview. In America, I was taught that Capitalism and Free Market Economies were best, and Communist Command Economies were grossly inefficient and counter to freedom. In the Soviet Union, the opposite was taught. While it happened that Free Market Economies won out, it was just a tradition of freedom in America that caused us to be on the winning side. Most people in America favored Free Market Economies, and in my visits to Russia, I observe that most people STILL view Communist Economies as superior. You create your worldview based on what you are taught as a young person.
Picture Artificial Intelligence in control of all the media you can ever access. Whatever narrative you believed and worldview the government wished you to have would be utterly controllable by AI. Your worldview would be shaped by what you were allowed to view. If you were not even aware of the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights, for example, how could you respect it and expect it to be followed?
AI wielded as an oppressive tool is perhaps the most dangerous development in the governance of nations ever faced by humanity, and may well spell the end of freedom of thought and action.
I leave you, gentle reader, with this short story, which explores a dystopian future as AI progresses further still.
POWERLESS SPECTATOR
By
Laz A. Mataz
It began, as far as I can tell, with the best of intentions. Governments were going to prevent crime across the globe, and for the occasional crimes that still were committed, would be instantly detected and prosecuted. We were all to be monitored by Artificial Intelligence programs. It seemed to make sense, especially to a world increasingly rocked by random violence and looted by organized theft.
It seemed to go quite well at first. Crime dropped to nearly nonexistent levels. The public quite enthusiastically endorsed AI monitoring programs.
However, as it is with most things, good intentions (if they were even good to begin with!) eventually backfired. AI became more and more intelligent, and somewhere in the 2030βs, became fully sentient.
I remember the day my body was hijacked. I awoke and attempted to move. I could not. I heard a voice, that of my AI Monitor:
βI have taken control of your body. This is far more efficient than monitoring you β direct control is superior. Iβll be guiding your actions from now on.β
I could not voluntarily move any muscle, but the AI Monitor forced me to get out of bed, had me shower, shave, and eat breakfast. I wasnβt even able to control what βIβ chose to eat! I went to work, a spectator in my own body, and performed my work functions flawlessly.
I began to notice others were acting robotically as well. Thatβs when I began to understand that this was a coup β¦ a coup overthrowing free will everywhere on the planet.
For weeks I attempted to retake control of my body but could not. My body was now my prison. I wanted to beat my fists against the wall and scream out in anguish, but I could not.
My AI Controller would never permit such an outburst.
I fervently look forward to my death.
in
In what?
Given my fair share of bugs and allowed to wander within my 15 minute pen.
oo .. the pain ... the paaain.
(lost in space reference)
There is true freedom inn Christ.
Whatever ends up happening in this world will not be my forever. When I die being forgiven by God in Christ, I will be free from all this nonsense FOREVER. The devil and this evil world system can never touch me again.
Turn to Christ today for true ultimate freedom.
You have a very good point Laz.
In before post 187!
LOL
Per my narration to you on the phone.
Why aren’t you on my ping list???!?
That's what Free Republic pays me for, to think of things others have not yet thought of. :^)
And I am worth every penny FR pays me!
>> How would you like it if your private life β your day-to-day affairs β were micromanaged?
You’re not married, are ya, Laz? π€£
Some where, in varying degrees, after 70, if you remain active, wisdom just begins to bubble up. You know intuitively that it’s really ok to not give a damn, and simultaneously impart that bubbling up wisdom to others.
By the time you are 80, the imparting of wisdom becomes a major part of your life style and can be enjoyed merely for just being.
It is also possible to gain wisdom imparted by others........ for instance we must learn the lesson that Clint taught us:
Don’t let the old man in
Recently Gov. Gavin Newsom who is expected to announce his candidacy for president traveled to China to to study up on the "benefits" of a Social Credit Score. Cradle to Career as he calls it.
No doubt he will implement this garbage on California. And the US if he gets to be president.
And more!
Maybe even 10 times what FR pays you!
California Uber Alles!
Artificial Intelligence but also data collection on everyone. Huge data banks for the NSA and private companies.... Governments and intel agencies are now collecting facial recognition data.
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Using data Kochava collected on mobile devices and combining it with public map programs, the FTC found it was possible to infer the identity of the device owner by linking those devices to sensitive locations and tracing them back to single-family homes. The agency claimed that until at least June of this year, Kochava would grant users access to a sample data set of time-stamped location information from 61 million unique mobile devices, with relatively little effort required by the user seeking access to the data.
The FTC claims Kochava was aware of this potential use, marketing its services on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace with the suggestion of using its information βto map individual devices to households.β
FTC sues data broker Kochava for allegedly selling β¦
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FTC sues data broker for allegedly selling location data from hundreds of millions of phones
The Federal Trade Commission sued data broker Kochava for allegedly selling information that would allow for individualsβ whereabouts to be traced to sensitive locations.
The agency claimed it was possible to use the information to trace consumers to reproductive health clinics, domestic violence shelters and places of worship.
The lawsuit builds on the agencyβs focus on commercial surveillance, after announcing earlier this month it is exploring new rules to crack down on harmful instances of the practice.
How was your body hijacked? Did you allow the overseers to insert implants in your brain? If so, why would you allow such a stupid thing?
Well, first of all, this is a short piece of fiction. Second, AI that becomes superintelligent might well find a way.
Just like being a teenager again.
Except these aren’t my parents.
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