There are plenty of reasons for you to get excited about Artificial Intelligence (AI) as well as why you should worry about AI.
Cue Up: the recent resignation of Caitlin Kalinowski from OpenAI.
So, who is Caitlin Kalinowski?
Up until recently, Kalinowski led the robotics and consumer hardware initiatives at OpenAI.
And she stepped down shortly after the company entered into an agreement with the United States Department of Defense to deploy its artificial intelligence models on government systems.
According to Kalinowski: “I resigned from OpenAI. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call.”
She was not rejecting national defense outright. She even acknowledged that “AI has an important role in national security.”
And yet she warned that certain lines had been crossed.
In her own words: “surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got.”
She was referring to how quickly the speed at which the decision was made to implement with the Department of Defense.
Right about now some of you may be thinking: “What’s the big deal here?”
The big deal is when someone inside the system walks away and raises that type of alarm, you should pay attention.
After the September 11 attacks, intelligence agencies dramatically expanded their surveillance powers under the banner of “protecting national security” through the Patriot Act.
Phone data, internet activity, and financial transactions became data points feeding enormous intelligence databases.
As expected, the public was told these programs were narrowly targeted at foreign threats.
But behind the curtain, the databases were growing larger every year.
Governments now have access to EVERYTHING we do.
Adding insult to privacy injury, most people do not realize that the financial system was also pulled into this surveillance web.
Some creepy examples include:
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Donated to Trump? You’re on a list to be monitored.
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Hold religious beliefs that do not coincide with current political leanings? Anyone who purchased a Bible was placed on a list.
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Your bank account, your transactions, and even your spending patterns increasingly became part of enormous government databases.
Kalinowski exposed that the next phase is already underway.
And once AI becomes embedded in national security systems, the surveillance state moves to an entirely new level.
Worry about AI
It’s kind of like the “Person of Interest” TV series but more advanced to where Governments will have the ability to monitor populations in real-time.
And this is why Kalinowski’s resignation matters.
She warned openly about AI being used for domestic surveillance without oversight.
Hopefully she won’t become soooo distraught over her decision to quit that she somehow commits suicide by shoot herself twice in the back of her head.
Ironically (or NOT) the Pentagon has already begun describing certain advanced AI systems as potential national security risks if they cannot be controlled by the government.
Translation: Artificial Intelligence itself is now viewed as a threat unless it is firmly under the state’s control.
And that should tell you everything you need to know about where this is heading.
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