Necessary Symbiosis: What Happens When Science and Government Work Together (And When They Don't) by Vyshnavi Karra

Author:Vyshnavi Karra [Karra, Vyshnavi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Political Advocacy, Political Science, Political Process
ISBN: 9781636766423
Google: nn0MzgEACAAJ
Goodreads: 58052081
Publisher: New Degree Press
Published: 2020-12-07T00:00:00+00:00

chapter 5

data privacy

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Sometime in the not-so-distant future, humans create an amusement park filled with humanoid robots that humans can kill, rape, and dominate but also have conversations or go on adventures with. But after using machine learning, those humanoid robots gain artificial consciousness and revolt against humans. Dorothy, an android leading the insurrection, reads a 10 thousand-word book that contains all knowledge about how human beings function. (To put that into context, that’s approximately 1/5th the length of this book.) This book gives Dorothy the ability to gain consciousness.199

Sound like science fiction? In this particular case, yes, it’s the main plot of the HBO series Westworld.200

But how close are we to actually getting humanoid robots that gain consciousness? And what does that mean for data privacy issues? It depends on the task at hand. Right now, a lot of artificial intelligence is focused on getting robots to do physical tasks, like folding laundry, but in order to interact with a human, the algorithm is much more complex.201

It may take a while, but it isn’t scientifically impossible. But what is closer to our current reality as of 2020, is targeted advertising, like in the movie Minority Report. In this movie, advertisers target you as you walk by using an eye scan, with billboards specific to you. But those eye scans can also track your data in order to stop you from committing future crimes. Those eye scans are all it takes to know everything there is to know about you.202 We don’t have those eye scans yet, and we don’t have humanoid robots who could, potentially, do those eye scans in real time and change their behavior accordingly. But we do have our smartphones, and they’re doing something similar.

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