Technology and AI ethicists have it wrong. The danger of technology and AI is not the tired old tropes of surveillance, tracking, or Cambridge Analytica. My goal is to show you these things aren’t as scary as they make it out to be. The focus on surveillance and tracking is really a red herring for what’s really going on behind the scenes. One major outcome of is the erosion of capacity for agency, affecting our capacity to act and know.
4. The Red Herring of Data Collection
4. The Red Herring of Data Collection
4. The Red Herring of Data Collection
Technology and AI ethicists have it wrong. The danger of technology and AI is not the tired old tropes of surveillance, tracking, or Cambridge Analytica. My goal is to show you these things aren’t as scary as they make it out to be. The focus on surveillance and tracking is really a red herring for what’s really going on behind the scenes. One major outcome of is the erosion of capacity for agency, affecting our capacity to act and know.