Frontline on AI and the Decision to Substitute Capital for Labor

[ancianita]

Kai-Fu Lee, with other experts, offers much knowledge about AI, its history and the future uses, as the ultimate tool of wealth creation. Meanwhile, Frontline's the episode offers much to think about the meaning of an AI present and future, AI's predictive power in affecting elections and humans' emotions; the new wealth gained by collecting behavioral data, why Google has become the dominant and secretive owner of data (owned by Blackrock and Vanguard shareholders) and ways a new world surveillance capitalism is changing humans' futures.

McTaggart's talk around 1:25:40 seems particularly scary; what's good, politically, is his getting CA's Right To Know Act passed unanimously, and how users there can now know what data Big Tech has on them, and tell Big Tech whether or not it can sell their information.

[Jim__]

1. Bookmarking to watch later.