Obama had just won. I sounded kinda crazy—warning about the dangers of ad tech, dark posts, algorithms for the public sphere and politics.
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Let me sound crazy again. The current path of the digital economy and AI is building the infrastructure for a new kind of authoritarianism.
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The stuff that keeps coming out isn't one-off errors here & there. It's structural. No easy solutions with just a bit more transparency etc.
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I'm going to do the best I can this year to lay this out in long-form and in talks. I believe this is both important and deeply political.
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I'm in NYC this week, for a TED talk—on surveillance authoritarianism! I know TED tends upbeat—but this is my third somewhat grim TED talk!
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First was why digitally-fueled movements don't all convey the same threat to power. Second on bias/threats from machine learning! Now this.
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your reply seems to assume that centralised economic control is important for such authoritarianism. why would it be?
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Plus, those currencies are pretty centralizing in ways, and can support authoritarianism in other ways.
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