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Yes, there is a complexity to life that flows through everyone and everything.

This could relate to our basic needs, our relationships, or our goals.

However, humans tend to create complexity, often unnecessarily barriers when  life, at its essence, can be straightforward and uncomplicated.

We now plagued by algorithms.

Algorithms are making hugely consequential decisions in our society on everything from medicine to transportation to welfare benefits to criminal justice and beyond.

They are quietly changing the rules of human life.

The question is, whether the benefits of algorithms ultimately outweigh the costs.

They are subtly shifting the way our society is operating, complicating it, because of our relationship with machines

We expect them to be almost godlike, to be so perfect that we will blindly follow them wherever they lead us.

The rules and systems that govern our lives are changing all around us, and algorithms are a big part of that.

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We shouldn’t blindly trust algorithms, but we also shouldn’t dismiss them altogether.

They’re incredibly consistent.

They never get tired, and they’re absolutely precise.

The problem is that algorithms don’t understand context or nuance. They don’t understand emotion and empathy in the way that humans do.

Billions of people around the world are interacting with these technologies, which is why the tiniest changes can have such a gigantic impact on all of humanity.

We don’t know how these things are going to be used and in what situations or what context.

But we don’t have to create a world in which machines are telling us what to do or how to think, although we may very well end up in a world like that.

As I have said on many occasions algorithms are turning people into products, without us realize it.

We just have to be careful in the way that we employ them.

It’s not just protecting teenagers from addiction to platforms (that some governments around the world are just beginning to do, ) it’s adults that need to be protected from these profit seeking algorithms that are plunder the world markets and will eventually run governments.

How can this be achieved?

By treating them as monopolies.

We need to breakup the empires of AI.

https://youtu.be/Cn8HBj8QAbk?is=tOxJUBFZoxqD7idT

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A few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as long as we are alive.

As pollution increases and climate change speeds up, future generations may never know what truly fresh air feels like.

We’ll freak out over heatwaves, floods, or polar bears floating away on sad little icebergs, but somehow nobody is losing sleep over the fact that the air itself, the stuff we need every second, is getting trashed too.

99% of us are sucking in air that isn’t even close to “safe.”

With the USA weaponising the USA dollar the reserves currency of most countries we are fools if we stand by and let our lives be dictated to algorithms dictators.

All human comments appreciated. All like clicks and abuse chucked in the bin.

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