Seems like a good place to chime in with my personal anxiety about AI: that each citizen will have an AI assigned to spy on them full time.
So they already have all the data, but nobody is looking at it. But soon (or perhaps already) we'd have (the functional equivalent of) a conscious being paying 100% attention to your every act.
> Seems like a good place to chime in with my personal anxiety about AI: that each citizen will have an AI assigned to spy on them full time.
Reminds me of the Culture novels by Iain M Banks. They use AI drones to prevent criminals from reoffending by constant monitoring.
> The Culture doesn't actually have laws; there are, of course, agreed-on forms of behaviour; manners, as mentioned above, but nothing that we would recognise as a legal framework. Not being spoken to, not being invited to parties, finding sarcastic anonymous articles and stories about yourself in the information network; these are the normal forms of manner-enforcement in the Culture. The very worst crime (to use our terminology), of course, is murder (defined as irretrievable brain-death, or total personality loss in the case of an AI). The result - punishment, if you will - is the offer of treatment, and what is known as a slap-drone. All a slap-drone does is follow the murderer around for the rest of their life to make sure they never murder again. There are less severe variations on this theme to deal with people who are simply violent.
I think that was part of DARPA's 2001 Total Information Awareness progam. For 330 million American citizens, let's see, that's about a $100,000 upfront investment each at todays's prices? So um, 33 trillion dollars? Add in economies of scale, maybe 3-4 trillion dollars? About half the cost of the Iraq War and Afghan War combined?
Who needs infrastructure, education, public health, etc. when your primary concern is spying on your own population? The STASI and Gestapo - and their clients - would have understood.
Oh it will get better, sure there will be your government issued spy watching you, but there will also be you Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft issued spies which will also harass you hyper-targeted personalized ads. walk past animated ad it uses deepfakes to put you and your family in a auto insurance ad, go farther down the street you see your family in another ad for a realtor and your family smiling as they move into a new home, which is a real home in your area for sale happens to be for sale for just slightly more than your willing to pay but you son look so happy in the ad. as you keep walking eye tracking software keeps note of how long your yes linger and where. Did you eyes rest on that women's breast a half second longer than the algorithm expected well now your getting ads for Viagra and condoms with her in them the next day. That's where we are headed
And then the police are allowed to use that data through dragnets. Wrong time wrong place? Enjoy the police coaxing everything they want out of the AI about you.
(Imagine the near future, when GPT denounces citizens to the police for reading unapproved texts... Philip K Dick cross Orwell cross Ray Bradbury.)