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Deep Learning 'Godfather' Bengio Worries About China's Use of AI
Yoshua Bengio, a Canadian computer scientist who helped pioneer the techniques underpinning much of the current excitement around artificial intelligence, is worried about China's use of AI for surveillance and political control.
Bengio, who is also a co-founder of Montreal-based AI software company Element AI, said he was concerned about the technology he helped create being used for controlling people's behavior and influencing their minds.
"This is the 1984 Big Brother scenario," he said in an interview. "I think it's becoming more and more scary."
[...] The Chinese government has begun using closed circuit video cameras and facial recognition to monitor what its citizens do in public, from jaywalking to engaging in political dissent. It's also created a National Credit Information Sharing Platform, which is being used to blacklist rail and air passengers for "anti-social" behavior and is considering expanding uses of this system to other situations.
"The use of your face to track you should be highly regulated," Bengio said.
Bengio is not alone in his concern over China's use-cases for AI. Billionaire George Soros recently used a speech at the World Economic Forum on Jan. 24, to highlight the risks the country's use of AI poses to civil liberties and minority rights.
Also at Futurism.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 04 2019, @11:28PM (3 children)
My prediction is a push from public to private at a civilization wide scale, with a side dish of lots of private monitoring (alexa spy recordings type stuff)
For a brief period of time, tech was about being public as possible; likely to change focus to being as private as possible. Not as easy to monetize, but luckily computing power is getting infinitely cheap.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Immerman on Tuesday February 05 2019, @12:14AM (2 children)
I think you may be right, and that we should push ubiquitous surveillance to be first implemented on politicians and corporate executives - the individuals whose bad behavior can do the most harm to the most people, with the surveillance footage all made public (perhaps with a delay to avoid compromising physical security). If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear, yada,yada,yada.
That serves two purposes: first, it highlights the hypocritical authoritarians in a very clear fashion. Secondly, if it gets implemented anyway, it helps maintain a balance of power between the public and authorities that would otherwise be very one-sided.
(Score: 2) by datapharmer on Tuesday February 05 2019, @02:55AM (1 child)
Oh so you watched the movie “the circle”?
(Score: 2) by Immerman on Tuesday February 05 2019, @05:18AM
I have not. Is it any good?
I think I was first introduced to the idea by a David Brin essay on radical transparency, or something to that effect.