No. The US has always had political problems wrt surveillance; and many places have had much worse ones.
Now, all of us can anticipate a very different, all but inevitable, and very much worse political problem.
AI is a force multiplier and an accelerant.
As such it is a problem, an obvious one, and a very very big one. This is just one of many ways in which force multiplication and acceleration, so pursued, and so lauded, in so many domains, may work their magic on preexisting social and political evils. And give us brand new ones, per Larkin.
No. The US has always had political problems wrt surveillance; and many places have had much worse ones.
Now, all of us can anticipate a very different, all but inevitable, and very much worse political problem.
AI is a force multiplier and an accelerant.
As such it is a problem, an obvious one, and a very very big one. This is just one of many ways in which force multiplication and acceleration, so pursued, and so lauded, in so many domains, may work their magic on preexisting social and political evils. And give us brand new ones, per Larkin.