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> Snowden: "What happens when the machines start making mistakes?"

This is exactly the concern. These corporations are infiltrated with NSA, FBI, and CIA. All the data gathering and surveillance tactics are in full swing across the board (e.g, Meta, Amazon, Google, Accenture). There's a bunch of data, and AI connected to it, trying to figure out "good" from "bad", "opportunity zones" for monetization and the like. They share the data with each other and with the government. NSA, Meta, Palantir and the like have developed "personas" of every single one of us.

AI is advancing. Ben Goertzel correctly said "we don't have to know as much to employ AI/ML now." Snowden correctly points out "this tech is cheaper than ever before." And we keep trusting AI to "figure it out." Just feed AI more data (looking at you OpenAI). Well, what happens when AI is wrong? We see books such as Algorithms of Mass Destruction highlight HR hiring and firing mishaps, and police incorrectly ID-ing possible repeat offenders. This is a small set of the vast negative impact society has already endured.

Now, we have more people, with less education and ethics training, employing more AI models, with fewer safeguards for user privacy and security than ever. Stop pretending that the cloud is super secure; it isn't. This is crazy. We are at real risk of modeling ourselves out of existence.

Snowden: "Maybe they [government spy agencies] can stop spying on the public, and start spying for the public."

Exactly. Leverage what we have. Disincentivize corporations from predatory data gathering tactics and deploying harmful AI.