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posted by janrinok on Tuesday February 13 2018, @01:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the just-the-rich,-then? dept.

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Russian Communist Party MP and Nobel Prize-winner Zhores Alferov has urged restrictions on internet access, saying unlimited access to information can harm people's morals and mental health.

"The internet must have limitations and it must not be available to everyone," Alferov stated in a recent interview with Rossiiskaya Gazeta daily. He went on to explain that in his opinion the total lack of control and restrictions of the net can affect people's behavior and damage publicly-accepted moral guidelines.

"By making fools of our population today we will have a lot of problems," he said.

In the same interview, Alferov said he personally did not expect any conflicts between humanity and artificial intelligence in future, but stated that it was wrong to "fully trust a machine."

Alferov is a world-renowned physicist, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is also a State Duma MP representing the largest opposition party, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF).

But... Who will I argue with if there aren't any commies on the Internet?

Source: https://www.rt.com/politics/418544-internet-should-not-be-accessible/


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by vux984 on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:49AM (6 children)

    by vux984 (5045) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @02:49AM (#636945)

    /agree.

    I've had this same discussion about voting rights, and reproduction rights too. I think there are lots people who should be restricted from doing either.
    But, for such a system to exist, someone else gets to decide who gets to vote or who gets to reproduce.

    So despite my sense that there are people who shouldn't vote or reproduce or access the internet for that matter... I favor no restrictions in all cases, because giving someone else the power to decide who is eligible is inevitably a worse solution.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 13 2018, @06:30AM (#637024)

    We all know someone who we think should not <insert activity here> and there are people who know us who think we should not <insert activity here>.

  • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:15PM (4 children)

    by Grishnakh (2831) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @04:15PM (#637179)

    The problem is that if you have no controls, then you get an unstable state and a bad outcome.

    The answer is relatively simple: we need someone to be in charge of limiting peoples' freedoms. Because we can't trust other people to do that, we need to build an AI to do it.

    I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.

    • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:27PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @05:27PM (#637203)

      You started perfect, then you suddenly veered off and ignored millennia of tradition.
      Gods are pissed.

    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 13 2018, @10:04PM (1 child)

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 13 2018, @10:04PM (#637293) Journal

      AI, er...you mean, a program written by humans, right? You know, garbage in, garbage out...why would we trust, let alone bow down to, an AI?

      --
      I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
      • (Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Wednesday February 14 2018, @12:04AM

        by Grishnakh (2831) on Wednesday February 14 2018, @12:04AM (#637348)

        If it's intelligent, it's not just "a program written by humans", though it could have biases inherited from that legacy. Are you stuck with all the same viewpoints that your parents had?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @08:56PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 14 2018, @08:56PM (#637872)

      AI is going to obey somebody.
      It is possible for a suitably emerging AI to take decisions like a reasonable human, but this is not the direction AI is developed currently, nor the reason.