• The problem is not the artificial intelligence, it’s the natural stupidity and cruelty of its human masters
    • We will be under constant surveillance and our inner feelings will also be monitored - Extremely dystopian

Artificial Intelligence and Natural Stupidity

  • 3 possibilities of consciousness
    • Consciousness is only organic - Cannot create it non-organically
    • Consciousness may be non-organically but linked to intelligence
    • Neither - Computers can be super intelligent with zero consciousness
  • Focus on developing human consciousness and values over focusing too much on developing AI - AI will follow humans

Digital Dictatorships/Liberty(Big Data is Watching You)

  • Democracy cannot survive the merger of infotech and biotech
  • Big data and ML will make “digital dictatorships” highly likely in the future - Centralized information is power
  • No algorithm transparency and yet they will decide our lives and careers
  • Personalized discrimination