Digital dictatorship or mafia?

Digital dictatorship? ‘G Mafia’ controlling the future of AI and humanity? Will brain science gives access to our bio-metric data? Will we all have bio-metric sensors that can monitor what’s happening in our bodies just in a few years?

Being part of AI realm, we truly support a call-to-action of renown #futurists and #historians who urge companies and governments worldwide to work together and create guiding principles for the development and use of AI.

Sharing the insights from the noted scientists who continue raising these provoking questions at World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Futurist Amy Webb, a professor at New York University, claims that there are 9 companies globally responsible for the future of AI and why it is dangerous. However, she believes that “AI regulation doesn’t make sense because we shift from having a tiny group of people making decisions about optimization to a tiny group of people who are lawmakers, who are very well read and very smart people but overwhelmingly lack degrees in the hard sciences and technical experience.” Learn more.

Prof. Yuval Noah Harari, a historian and author of bestselling Sapiens books, took a stage in Davos last year and shook the audience by telling that if too much data is concentrated in few hands, humanity will split not into classes, but into species. Professor highlighted that “Today data is the most important asset in the world. With powerful computing and biometric data, we can hack human-beings and organisms. Algorithms will understand us better than we do ourselves. After 4 billion years of organic life shaper by natural selection we are entering an era of inorganic life shaper by intelligent design. This is why the ownership of data is so important. If we don’t regulate it, a tiny elite may come to control not just a future of human societies but shape the life forms. At present the corporations are owning much of data. Rise of digital dictatorships can happen in only few decades from now. How to regulate the ownership of data? The discussion has just begun. And we’d better call upon our scientists, philosophers, lawyers and even our poets to turn their attention to these big questions.”

Watch full presentation of prof. Yuval Noah Harari here.