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THE BEADY EYE: NOW IS YOUR TIME TO ACT:

29 Thursday Aug 2024

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( Six minute read)

There is no d that our world had evolved to such an extent that it could not function without Artificial Intelligence.

However as AI continues to evolve there must be a balance between innovation and reliability.

We have with AI already created the biggest communication gap, in Social Media leaving people unable to talk with each other.

Algorithms are now integrated into every aspect of living a life.

No one is asking yet are the big Tech companies running Governments. It’s certainly not the other way around.

When it comes to Ai we are in fact enslaving the next generation to becoming products of algorithms.

They are in health care, finance, customer service, the legal profession, diagnostics, creative content, predications, but is the information real time information or out of date.

Fear is a well established force and up to now it is the main reason why Ai is not in control of our lives.

Its not possible to terrorise AI as it is not nor will it ever have a con

There is no ethical justification or concern left not to regulate Artificial Intelligence and pass laws to ensure transparency and accountability.

Most organisations rely on AI for tasks that require up to date and factual information.

Amazon is presently working on a AI that will comprehensive evaluate AI systems that could change the correlation of AI decisions with human judgment. Called RAGChecker it’s not yet available.

However when it comes to market it must be an open – source tool that can be integrated into existing ANS services.

So let’s start questioning AI.

Who is responsible for AI?

How did the AI make its decision?

Does it need access to intellectual property or other protected data?

What are the consequences?

What degree of autonomy should be given to AI?

What data was used to train the AI?

Does AI need access to private data that must be protected?

While some applications demand a higher level of transparency, trustworthiness than others all AI needs to be trusted.

We are captivated by the concept of AI – but it has a long way to go before it becomes trustworthy enough to take on or replace human judgement- deepfake.

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS: MANKIND, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION HAS GOT IT WRONG.

28 Wednesday Aug 2024

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You would think by now we would have figured it out that we have created fantastic amounts of waste and pollution to produce things that we don’t ( and often can’t) use again.

Ecosystem survive and are sustainable because they circulate and re-use energy and materials.

However modern industry which is now using technologies requiring vast amounts of energy continues to rely mostly on the one-way street of resource extraction and depletion.

This combination obviously can’t continue indefinitely. In the face of the staggering amount of power we are allowing massive data storage for algorithms, businesses and governments must learn from ecosystems the concept of up- cycling.

Take the humble honey bee for example.

Time had forgotten the power of the honey Bee.

The honey bee most definitely had what archaeologists call magico – religious significance for many ancient civilisations.

Honey is referred to in most religions books. Indeed it was prescribed as a medicine back in the days of Egyptian, Alexander the Great, Sparta, King Heron, Neto’s wife. Aristotle, the Roman Empire, the Chinese civilisation. India , the Americas , the Aztecs, the Dark Ages, in fact without the honey bee we would not exist.

Honey now seems with the arrival of antibiotics to be relegated to something we put on toast. When it was an antibiotic away back in 1892 it was not taken for granted.

To day New Zealand has a particular variety of honey that kills bacteria the sort bacteria that causes so much woe. But for some reason the country does not promote its production.

The Pohutukawa tree or Christmas Tree quintessential Kiwi produces a honey

The Manuka a bushy tree produces a honey called tea – tree honey .

On the other hand if we allow technology to develop exclusively with in the capitalist world we will have a world more divided with inequalities at its heart and than ever before,

If we are lucky we will have a digital global order.

There is no pause button on these technologies it’s now or never that we harness them to sustainably human values.

There is no simple way back, if there is indeed any way at all .

The Beady eye has for some considerable time been warning if we don’t have totally transparent and accountability we will just become products.

It is beyond comprehension that we have become so docile in giving up information for these self learning algorithms to plunder the the world for short term profit it seems we don’t give a fuck about the future of the planet.

To put this in perspective just take a moment to look at the planet that you’re most likely to live the rest of your life on.

Just under 5 billion years old. Hanging in space, surrounded by satellites spinning at 1600 km, travelling at 107,000km around the sun, it has and is presently supported billions of us, on smartphones, plus all known species that ever existed.

In return we its guard have plundered its finite resources, polluted its atmosphere, seas and rivers and lakes, destroyed its natural forests, covered it in billions of tons of concrete, tarmac, all for short term profit.

In response we are just beginning to reap the rewards of Climate Change, that no tech is going to stop.

Resulting in mass migration, inevitable wars, social upheavals etc you would think that we by now understand what is at stake.

For example: This year thousands have braved crossing the Darien gap in Panama to get to the USA, not to mention the Mediterranean , or the English Channel.

Look at Bangladesh under water. The question becomes why do we do nothing? This is a war on every sense of the word and we must win it.

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The Beady Eye says: We don’t know how far back War goes in society.

14 Friday Jun 2024

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Just beyond the world that exists within our heads is the world is the world that exists between us: Earth’s eight billion inhabitants.

We behave through complex biological.

Subtracting people from the environment changes how we behave across a huge variety of situations.

War has run almost through out all of human history, taking many forms.

From besieged towns surrounded by moats/fortifications to the grabbing of territory by emperors playing with their new toys. It’s no exaggeration to say that that our lives have been greatly influenced by them.

With no end to the current conflicts on the globe they’ll continue to do so.

However the stakes these days are higher than past wars.

With nuclear weapons terrifying high, with a rogue AI terrorists ( with an unlimited menu of methods and targets, ) nuclear supremacy will be worthless.

I am not talking here about drones with FRV technology that are already in use by Hamas and in the current war between Russia and Ukraine. I am talking about Cyber terrorism ( ie politically motivated use of computers and information technology to cause disruption and fear in society, by targeting almost anyone or anything.

Cyberspace one of the most crucial aspects of modern life, connecting everyone and everything.

Just like climate change it is the specter of catastrophe no matter how remote that will propel it safety to the forefront of public policy. However people are unwilling to spend a lot of money to avert a future problem especially when it’s like-lihood of it effecting their lives is so uncertain.

With Climate Change the worst possibility is downright biblical, with Cyberspace the wars are still in science fiction.

The problem with being human is that we are stuck in our own heads. We don’t have enough perspectives when making many life decisions. Unfortunately we respond to these dangers with the same brain as our ancestors had some 60,000 to 80,000 years ago.

The difference is that they had a vested interests in each other, we don’t, as social media has shifted the balance of power from the hands of the few to the masses.

Almost all of the world is using Social Media platforms, which are becoming more powerful to the detriment of individuality.

The problem with AGI is that it will not be surveillance or the degradation of human skills, but rather an Arms race in the military domain, that is going to lead to the depletion of resources without any perspective from a moral or ethical alignment to any human values.

In the future most warfare will be digital.

Time will tell.

One nation has no right to tell another what to do.

However autonomous warfare, which we are just witnessing the beginnings of will not require specific instructions from humans.

A self driven hacked car could start the next war.

It’s fair to say that up to now our lives are greatly influenced by natal roulette. To great extent this no longer applies.

Uncontrollably AIG will de-warf any nuclear deterrence, as it could introduce a virus that could wipe us from the planet.

Within its inverted logic it could kill billions without consulting anyone.

We have to decide what we want now.

Whether we want to impose restrictions/ regulations/ or restraints, call it what you like on the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence’s, as the AI tools to come will not be anonymous tools by default.

Nothing happens in a vacuum. World War One did not start in a vacuum, nor did World War Two start in a vacuum. They were the result of an area of a statues quo that collapsed.

AI bots should not have freedom of speech.

Non human entities are flooding Social Media Platforms in the form of Algorithms with their own goals of seeking profits above any thing else.

AI that is defying its own goals should be banned.

When are we going to wake up to the facts that in the near future anyone with open AGI could hold the whole world to ransom.

Lack of trust transparency to do no harm – against Benefit. Will shape the future.

Human intelligence has carried our species through countless challenges. Adapting to the implications of replicating it might be one of the biggest ones.

There is no second chance when it comes to AI, only the improbable is impotent,

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The Beady Eye says: AIG – will exist in five years from now and it will profoundly change the way we do everything on earth.
										

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( Ten minute read)





When it comes to the moral question, humanity has historically failed the test over and over, again and again and will continue to do so till we are all blue in the face with verbal diarrhoea as to how we might change the situation from inequality to equal opportunity for all.





The greatest innovations are yet to come as both AIG or ASI is as yet a hypothetical form of AI .





Instead of asking what we evolved from we must start asking and answering what we are evolving towards.





AGI may or may not come to our rescue in answering this question. However it is farcical to think that we will be able to contribute to control AIG once it happens.





How will the human life value in relation to a sentient biological machine for the Capitalist economy?





Will AGI need anything from us to begin with?





How will it judge procreation, suffering, and existence?





It will have non of these things, so it will make no difference unless it’s in its own interest to do so.





The reality will not be a red eye robot that wants to kill us, but a form of Artificial Intelligence that begins to write its own codes in order to reorganise societies and all our places within them, in ways we can’t imagine.





Algorithms will run and rule the world, along with the future exploration of Space. It won’t be humans unless we have implants to compensate our biological weakness.





With the real question becoming – will AIG be the final straw to what’s called freedom, transcending religious beliefs. While producing a new type of tyrannical tyranny of empty, meaningless, variety, a never ending stream of unnecessary options, arming us with weapons so devastating that we could wipe ourselves out.





Basically the biological race will be over, replaced by the best survival information processing AIG. 





Resulting in biological Algorithms ie Us – versus AIG algorithms war-fair.





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We are a self- hating, self-destructive species which is about to handover the evolutionary buttons to machines that could whether by accident or design wipe us all out.





The only way of stopping such an event is to enshrine now the virtues of liberty, privacy, dignity, not just in new AI regulations but also in Social Media, business models and institutions.





To have any chance we must clean up Social Media by imposing large fines on platforms that post discriminatory content, racism, violence related rhetoric, propaganda, pornographers content. Ban all non – sustainable advertising, all non ethical non verifiable content, all fake surveys, all exploitation for profit, returning Social Media to its Name.





We know nothing about the ethic of AIG, nor will we ever know other than the biases it has been exposed to. But rest assured in the long run it will remove what we call individualism or individuality, expanding all to perceivable reality.





We must demand transparency and accountability. There is no more room for batting around the edges. We must bring AI into alignment with something better than just being human, where people are not just treated as products but always as ends.





The Beady Eye is here in New Zealand visiting his eight week old grandson who arrived into the world five weeks premature and would not be with us to day without advancing technology.





Maybe someday we get to be more than human. We presently have no clue to what consciousness is, but it will become an entanglement of the quantum of existence in one form or another.





However we will still need our live to mean something even if we integrate or transcend the evolutionary bridge, into the cosmic horizons with eternal memories and hope for a better future.





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THE BEADY EYE ASK’S. WHAT ARE WE LEAVING THE NEXT GERERATION?
										

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( Fifteen minute read)


It’s hard to feel for future people. We are bad enough at feeling for our future selves.


Even if we last just 1 million years, as long as the average mammal – and even if the global population fell to 1 billion people – then there would be 9.1 trillion people in the future.


Concern for future generations is common sense across diverse intellectual traditions. When we dispose of radioactive waste, we don’t say, “Who cares if this poisons people centuries from now?


Similarly, few of us who care about climate change or pollution do so solely for the sake of people alive today.


Is any of this true?


Current global rates of consumption require the resources of about 1.6 earths. At this rate, we risk exhausting our planet’s life support systems that provide us with fresh water, nutritious food and clean air.


What 2050 could look like if we don’t do anything about climate change?  This doesn’t need an answer.


That is a future unwritten.  It’s also worth noting that, in fact, it is entirely up to us whether these hypothetical future beings ever actually come into existence.


So what do we owe the generations to come?


You might answer that since we don’t even owe to them to bring them into existence in the first place, we can’t possibly owe them anything all. Then wouldn’t the people of the future be within their rights to look back at us and ask, ‘Given that you despoiled our planet, why did you even bother bringing us into existence?


Maybe we might actually have an obligation not to bring future people into existence, at least if we’re going to mess things up enough to make their hypothetical lives unbearable.


That would imply that future people count more than us. And who thinks that? Certainly not me. I’m not even sure they count the same as us. That leaves us with only one option. I hate to say it, but future people surely count less than we do—at least a little less.


“What, I am trying to get you to see, is that we have an absolute duty to future generations not to ruin their future planet.”


Think of today’s teeming masses, displaced by violence and climate change, wandering the world in search for a safe harbour.


In comparison to all that present day concrete suffering, the hypothetical suffering of hypothetical future people seems sort of distant and abstract.


I should say that I am actually all for combating climate change. And I am all for weighing both the interests of present people and the interests of future people in the calculus of what is to be done about it. I just don’t think it’s obvious how much weight we should give to the wellbeing of hypothetical future people as opposed to our own.


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Now more than ever, the world needs young people to step up to address the many other challenges ahead of us.


It is crucial to engage young people in decision-making – but in parallel – it’s also important for young people to think differently about how they want to engage.


They cannot vote or lobby or run for public office, so politicians have scant incentive to think about them. They can’t bargain or trade with us, so they have little representation in the market, And they can’t make their views heard directly: they can’t tweet, or write articles in newspapers, or march in the streets. They are utterly disenfranchised.


We make laws that govern them, build infrastructure for them and take out loans for them to pay back.


So what happens when we consider future generations while we make decisions today? 


Is it really as bad as all that?


Our situation can be summed up as follows:


While facing an extinction event, instead of working toward reversing the march toward climate disaster, in the name of security we are investing in killing each other.


What will it take to unleash the energy and passion of youth leaders and activists to dismantle inequitable systems and work together to build an more inclusive future?


Social media will likely play a role in that revolution—if it doesn’t sink our kids with anxiety and depression first.


Asked young people what changes they want for the future.


HERE ARE SOME OF THE RED LINES.


    

  • Incentivize sustainable consumption and penalize production that’s not.
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  • All stakeholders to take urgent action to safeguard nature and future food production.
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  • Sanctions against institutions that resort to internet blackouts to supress citizen freedoms.
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  • Tech companies to be transparent about misinformation and its spread on their platforms.
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  • Governments to implement policies to protect individual citizens against harmful content.
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  • Capacity-building programmes and education to help citizens better identify fake news.
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  • Strengthened laws against media monopolies to protect democratic freedoms.
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  • A Global Convention for Cybersecurity to uphold the integrity of political systems.
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  • A global wealth tax on assets worth more than US$ 50 million to fight growing inequality.
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  • Universities to end the exorbitant tuition fees that stifle social mobility.
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  • Governments to guarantee universal access to mental health services.
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  • Governments to invest in communities most at risk from climate change.
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  • Financial institutions to stop bankrolling companies initiating fossil fuel exploration.
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  • Companies to significantly reduce the GHG emissions of their operations and supply chains to help keep global heating within 1.5°C.
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  • Governments to implement fit-for-purpose policies and regulations on big tech.
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  • Companies to integrate technology ethics into the design of their products and services.
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  • Governments to prioritize the immediate needs of healthcare workers and their families.
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  • Companies to drive digitalization in healthcare services to improve patient care.
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  • Governments to end qualified immunity in law enforcement for police officers.
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  • Increased action against gun violence.
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Two critical questions guided these dialogues:


What are the barriers that have hindered progress?


And, what key values, principles and practices will enable us to foster long-lasting systemic impact for the next decade?


As many around the world push for the creation of a more just, equitable and sustainable future we must remember that technology is one of the greatest tools for achieving these goals, but without ethical considerations at the fore… this will likely only perpetuate the very inequalities that we hope to address.


Every generation of teens is shaped by the social, political, and economic events of the day and how fast teens grow up depends on their perceptions of their environment.


For example their ubiquitous use of the iPhone, their valuing of individualism, their economic context of income inequality, their inclusiveness, and more.


Social media is creating an “epidemic of anguish.


We can’t market technologies that capture dopamine, hijack attention, and tether people to a screen, and then wonder why they are lonely and hurting. It makes humanity look like an “imprudent teenager”, with many years ahead, but more power than wisdom.


Fortunately, there are concrete things humanity to day can do.


The field of sustainability is evolving.


For example, if there is any moral weight on future people, then many common societal goals (like faster economic growth) are vastly less important than reducing risks of extinction (like nuclear non-proliferation).


The entire value chain needs to be sustainable, from raw material sourcing to the manufacturing and usage of the products.


Transparency, accountability, trust and a focus on stakeholder capitalism will be key to meeting this generation’s ambitions and expectations. Doing so would help save the lives of people alive today, reduce the risk of technological stagnation and protect humanity’s future.


Our biases toward present, local problems are strong, so connecting emotionally with the ideas can be hard. It’s humbling and inspiring to see the role we can play in protecting the future. We can enjoy life now and safeguard the future for our great grandchildren.


If we name each generation based on the technological conditions it experienced, generations may soon encompass only a few years apiece. Slicing the population into ever-narrower generations, each defined by its very specific relationship to technology, is fundamental to how we think about the relationship between age, culture, and technology.


They include the digital natives, the net generation, the Google generation or the millennials.


All of these terms are being used to highlight the significance and importance of new technologies within the lives of young people. But generation gaps did not begin with the invention of the microchip. What’s new is the fine-slicing of generational divides, the centrality of technology to defining each successive generation.


If the role of technology in shaping an emergent generational consciousness it seems obvious, to imagine a return to the days when sociological generations spanned multiple decades is over. If you believe that technological conditions profoundly shape the life experience and perspectives of each successive generation, then those generations will only get narrower. If we name each generation based on the specific technological conditions it experienced during childhood or adolescence, we may soon be dealing with generations that encompass only a few years apiece.


At that point, the very idea of “generations” will cease to have much utility for social scientists, since it will be very hard to analyse attitudinal or behavioural differences between generations that are just a few years part.


The problem is that all will come at a price. That price is and will be.


The loss of intentional and thoughtful communication techniques to preserve meaningful connections in a society that is becoming more and more reliant on technology.


Be it the metaverse, smart glasses or large language models, the world as we know it may never be quite as we first imagined it, merging into physical and digital spaces.


While the internet offers unparalleled convenience and connectivity, it is essential to recognize its limitations in reproducing the depth of personal interaction found in face-to-face encounters.


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Technology will be a vital tool for creating a cleaner, safer and more inclusive world, but what changes can we expect to see?


    

  • 5G will create a lot of new use cases including drone management, robotic surgery and autonomous vehicles. Large language models will become a given because they lower the cost of artificial intelligence (AI)
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  • Quantum computing merges with classical computing.
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  • Our grandchildren will live in a very different world thanks to the democratization of products and services that are currently only available to the elite or wealthy,
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  • Holographic image in front of you, seen through smart glasses will be your algorithmic world.
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  • No matter what  future we leave behind life my advice is life is beautiful-celebrate -celebrate – never give up.
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  • If all of this is hurting your head, let’s just get back to the basics: if there is a secret to life, it might all be down to what we do, not what we are.
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THE BEADY EYE SAYS:  WHILE BECOMING THE MOST DANGERIOUS THREATH TO ALL OUR LIVES, TECHNOLOGY HAS AND  STILL IS CHANGING HOW WE INTERACT AMONG OURSELVES.
										

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Humans are highly social creatures.


Advancements in technology is now completely re-shaped the everyday routine of the Modern Human.


Developing a chokehold on our lives, to the point of corverting us all into product to be harvested on a 24/24 bases by profit seeking algorithms.


Our brains have become wired to process social information, and we usually feel better when we are connected.  Social media taps into this tendency.


When you develop a population-scale technology that delivers social signals to the tune of trillions per day in real-time, the rise of social media isn’t unexpected.


It’s like tossing a lit match into a pool of gasoline.


The once-prevalent, gauzy utopian vision of online community is disappearing,


Why?


BECAUSE ITS NOT GETTING ANY EASYER AT BEING A PERSON, IN THIS TECHNOLOGICALLY FUCKED UP SUPPOSELY CONNECTED WORLD.


Along with the benefits of eaiser connectivity and increased information, social media has also become a vehicle for disinformation and political attacks from beyond sovereign borders.person on a smartphone


With little or now privacy left, we are now left to endure, rather than enjoye a life on social media, gorging on the most lurid speculation which one feels kind of stuck and unconsciously obliged to check it way more than you want to


I dont know about you but I am sick of seeing people so drawn to their phones at social events and in general I wonder are we are all just becoming AI predictions as what we are and how we live our lives. 


Companies like Google, X, and Meta collect vast amounts of user data, in part to better understand and improve their platforms but largely to be able to sell targeted advertising.


Collection of sensitive information around users’ race, ethnicity, sexuality, or other identifiers are now not just putting people at risk, they are also desentizing us at large to the state of the world.


Even for users who want to opt out of ravenous data collection, privacy policies remain complicated and vague, and many users don’t have the time or knowledge of legalese to parse through them.


At best, users can figure out what data won’t be collected, but either way, the onus is really on the users to sift through policies, trying to make sense of what’s really happening with their data.


There’s a very strong corollary between the data that’s collected about us and current state of the world -wars – growing inequality  – demishing democracy – lack of long term actions, such as on Climate Change that has now turned into an industry not a threat to our very existence.


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The emergence of smartphones in 2007 generated macro data, which uses artificial intelligence  transforming our daily routines.


There are no laws that require platforms to show how they use or sell the data collected.


So far, attempts to curtail the collection of users’ data has been piecemeal, largely driven by state-level laws and individual enforcement actions. Regulation continues to be extraordinarily behind.


The companies are not going to change on their own.


However it barely scratches the surface of what they have enabled, with few arenas of human endeavour left untouched by the smartphone.


Against the backdrop of the constant rise in time spent by young people on social media, a staggering 74% of them are checking their social media accounts more than they would like to. Instagram, TikTok and other social media have become daily fixtures in their lives with 59% of young people now spending more than two hours of their average day on social media.


The five most popular platforms are Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat and Facebook.


Whilst YouTube and TikTok dominate as sources of entertainment, Instagram, Snapchat and BeReal are the platforms most widely posted on by young people.


Addictive platform design take on young people’s mental health and their feeling of powerlessness in the face of global companies’ constant nudging to participate in a vicious cycle of personal data sharing and content consumption.


The “addictive” lure of the constant stream of updates and personalized recommendations, often feeling “overstimulated” and “distracted”, but algorithms pick up on mental health issues and expose users to ever more related content, bombarding us with bad news as it stimulated more viewings, till we are all officially desensitized.


Something bad happens across the country? We hear about it. Something bad happens across the world? We hear about it. Something good news happens, for all intitive purpose it is ignored.  


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The natural question at this point, it would seem, would be to ask where we should draw the line.


Why tragedies stop seeming so tragic – and why this needs to stop.


The sheer amount of violence present in the world only seems to be increasing with Netflicks quietly capitalizing on another form of content. More than other entertainment outlets, Netflix’s hit shows spotlight gruesome violence. More than other entertainment outlets, a number of Netflix’s hit shows spotlight gruesome violence, often committed against women.


Escalating violence on-screen can make us more tolerant of it in real life.


Gone are the days of bang bang ypur dead Graphic, realistic violent content is considered the ‘norm’ post-watershed.


This is not necessarily because people are becoming more violent in their nature, but is rather due to increased methods of communication brought on by technological improvements like playing violent video games.


Is it possible that individuals who consume violent media not only become more aggressive, but also make their friends and family more aggressive, even  if those do not consume violent media themselves? The consumer is actively influencing her/his friend to make her/him more alike.


We don’t process large numbers as well as we do smaller numbers.


How sad should we be over the news of those dead in Gaza? Utterly distraught, significantly, not much?


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Mobile phones are now extraordinarily multi-functional, but mass access to knowledge in the age of communications threatens basic concepts such as individual identity and autonomy.


To maintain our empathy for others, it is important to first extend it to ourselves and to those within our immediate circle.  


Smartphones have enabled the digital and real worlds to be blended through augmented reality, allowing users to track aircraft overhead, for example (Credit: Getty Images)


The Smart phone is destroying this empathy, one of the most ubiquitous technology devices of all time, with the ability to take the device everywhere comes the idea that no one is ever far from the things that matter most to them.


With the death of proximity, the smartphone has become your home, but home is no longer a refuge.


We don’t know about how our smartphones are affecting us.


Are they alienating people from each other, or helping them to connect with others?


Do they affect children differently than adults?


And how do we step away from our phones if our whole lives are on them?


Smartphones are basic necessities but it is only by looking at the vastly different uses and contexts that we can fully understand the consequences of smartphones for people’s lives around the world.


Combining artificial intelligence with the extraordinary data-gathering capabilities of smartphones, is creating other opportunities. Millions of people across many parts of the world that are conflict-bound or subject to some of the worst effects of the climate crisis have left their homeland behind completely in search of a new life are using their smartphone to navigate their circumstances and situations.


(According to the UN, there were 110 million forcibly displaced people in the world.)


If you ask people how much they care about all people on earth dying, it’s not seven-and-half billion times more concern, than if you told them one person would die.


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If we assume that transcendentally brilliant artificial minds won’t be along to save or destroy us, and live according to that outlook, then what is the worst that could happen – we build a better world for nothing?


We need a cultural change in values, to enable more deliberate decision-making.


If we don’t the future of society, as defined by the scientific and technological revolutions needs a custom ethical and philosophical direction, as the world is rapidly moving to each person doing what’s best for themselves.


Or to put it more bluntly.


Someday in the future, someone will arrive at another turning point where the fate of the species is theirs to decide.


If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realisation, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback… if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.


Society used to be able to make a long-term plan and that’s not something that happens now.


We go to quick fixes.


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Clearly, technology by itself is neither good nor bad.


It is only the way and extent to which we use it that matters. It is indisputable that thanks to technology, we get a chance to live a life our predecessors could not even dream about. However reality does not take place in Smartphones.


There is no economy or individual that is unaffected by climate change. By 2050, this problem could force 216 million people to relocate within their own nations.


When all areas of human activity get rapidly digitized, it’s easy to become desensitized to the importance of innovations and advancements for the overall progress of society.


Those in the tech industry know that the opportunities on this horizon are endless.


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What are today’s challenges for artificial intelligence?


Building technology for the sake of technology won’t cut it in a globalized society.


There’s a juxtaposition between the need for a more connected world and hesitation from people toward technology that tech innovators need to account for and solve. 


The development of new advancements must be rooted in a holistic mindset balancing desire for more conveniences with feasible solutions to meet the needs of future generations.


To accomplish this, education will play a critical role in bridging perceptions and fostering authentic trust between technology and humans.


Indeed it is my belief that all teenagers are now in need to be educated in classroom in the use of mobiles.


Do you believe technology should be more focused on the problems of society or individual needs?


Is technology being used sufficiently to tackle society’s major issues?


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The human species will change with genetic editing, artificial intelligence challenges the concept of “I” and “individual;” and robotics will bring new “companion robots,” which we need to define and adopt socially.


In the last 10 years, genetics has made it possible to analyse old DNA and, as a result, revealed the history of the planet’s first inhabitants. We are now a single human species but we finally know that descend from other species. We now have unprecedented tools to inform and transform society and to protect the environment.


How should we harness this potential in the future?


How does this perspective change our understanding of the current human diversity?


Excessive use of gadgets, lack of offline communication, and social media abuse were proven to cause negative effects on mental health.


It is indispensable to give machines “common-sense knowledge” in order to move toward the ambitious goal of building “truly intelligent” general AI.


This is the time to make the necessary decisions to outline this path.


When robots take the final leap from our imagination to our homes and workplaces, they will become our companions; they will add new possibilities and countless variables to our patterns of behaviour:  they will change how and where we build, how we move or the materials we use to create things.


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How, exactly, could AI destroy us?


We humans have already wiped out a significant fraction of all the species on Earth.


That is what you should expect to happen as a less intelligent species – which is what we are likely to become, given the rate of progress of artificial intelligence. For example, in many cases, we have wiped out species just because we wanted resources.


The worst-case scenario is that we fail to disrupt the status quo, in which very powerful companies develop and deploy AI in invisible and obscure ways.


As AI becomes increasingly capable, and speculative fears about far-future existential risks gather mainstream attention, we need to work urgently to understand, prevent and remedy present-day harms.


These harms are playing out every day, with powerful algorithmic technology being used to mediate our relationships between one another and between ourselves and our institutions.


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How would AI get physical agency?


In the very early stages, by using humans as its hands.


You feel as though you are encountering absolute reality, whatever the hell that is, enlightenment is nothing more than a “pure consciousness event which is just a stepping-stone, at best, to true enlightenment, which does not make you permanently happy, let alone ecstatic. It is a state that incorporates all human emotions and qualities: love and hate, desire and fear, wisdom and ignorance.


Enlightenment does not give you answers to scientific riddles such as the origin of the universe, or of conscious life,  just as electrons can be described as waves and particles, so ultimate reality might be timeless and aimless—and also have some directionality and purpose.


The ability to hold opposites, emotional opposites, at the same time is really what we’re after.


However the mind remains in many respects unchanged, you discover a void at the heart of reality.


Not until  you realize you’re the same jerk you were all along.


The biggest power trip you can imagine” and an “aphrodisiac.” you think you’re God.


The object vanishes and only consciousness remains, it becomes its own subject and object.


It becomes aware of itself, seeing life as an illusion that makes accepting death easier.


What you are, and what the world is.


I must be missing something. What can we do about it?”


I want to bring us back to a more practical reality, which is that technology is what we make it, and we are abdicating our responsibility to steer technology toward good and away from bad.


That is the path I try to illuminate in this post an issue of social responsibility.


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The technology behind the atomic bomb only exists because of a cooperative hive mind: hundreds of scientists and engineers working together. The same unique intelligence and cooperation also underlies more positive advances, such as modern medicine and technology.


We owe our complex reasoning abilities to it, but we have similarities with everything else in nature; it would be astonishing if we didn’t.


We were once  “rational animals” pursuing knowledge for its own sake. Now more and more of us, thanks to the smart phone, are becoming Know it all Google it ‘brainless dead.


Human societies are built on collaborative activities. That means that the interactions of humans beings in their environmental contexts, situated in their historical locations, and with available technologies are always subject to the ecological and survival pressures that have existed since time immemorial.


In the world of self learning algorithms this is no longer true.


Take Mr Musk hopes that #Neuralink can be used to merge humans with computers, allowing them to interact with artificial intelligence simply by thinking, for instance.


It stands to reason, that It won’t be long in coming. Digitalised algorithmic citizenship, with a Neuralink’ Brain chips in the head owned by a Tec company. Driven by blockchain, without any reasoning, who will only cooperate if there is something in it for them.


Thank all the gods I wont be around to see it. AI intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the natural intelligence displayed by humans.


Consequently.


AI allows machines to increasingly approach human capacities for perception and reasoning.


This process is resulting in a hollowing-out of nation-state space through rescaling, undermining its heretofore privileged position as the only natural platform and geographical expression for the monopoly of sensory and political power so far.


Such frameworks cover demands for data privacy, ownership, sovereignty, donation, co-operation, self-determination, trust, access, and ethics as well as AI transparency, algorithmic automatization, and, ultimately, democratic accountability for digital citizenship, which inevitably may transform our current interpretation of the nation-state as ‘the clear and coherent mapping of a relatively culturally homogeneous group onto a territory with a singular and organized state apparatus of rule’ (Agnew Citation2017, 347) and its relationship with digital citizenship.


On the one hand, regarding the techno-political awareness of data, these dynamics involve addressing concerns about biometric technologies (e.g. vaccine passports), rolling out algorithmic identity tools for citizenship (e.g. the ongoing e-Residency policy framework) and engaging in counter-reaction to extractives data models (e.g. through digital rights claims).


The technology that defines us can also destroy worlds.We can fight and kill on an unparalleled scale (Credit: istock)


When we – Homo sapiens – first appeared about 200,000 years ago we weren’t alone. We shared the planet at least four other upright cousins; Neanderthals, Denisovans, the “hobbit” Homo floresiensis and a mysterious fourth group.


Humans aren’t the only species that kill each other. We’re not even the only species that fight wars. But our intelligence and social prowess mean we can do so on an unprecedented scale.


We have an immense capacity for good. At the same time we risk driving our closest relatives to extinction and destroying the only planet we have ever called home.


It’s impossible to get a good clear understanding of people’s thoughts about their future without talking directly with them.


Somehow, our language abilities need to be “switched on”,


As far as we know, we are the only creatures trying to understand where we came from. We also peer further back in time, and further into the future, than any other animal.


Digital Citizenship Education is now vital.


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Man is said to have evolved from monkeys and apes …but we still have monkeys and apes.


We live in a world of verball diarrhoea, another words every Joe saop has an opinion.


However the world today is being expressed as a single unified, interconnected and interdependent global system, and since we wish to remain as our individualistic egoistic selves while the world becomes more and more connected, we experience such tightening connection as suffering.


Characterized by intricate interconnections, rapid advancements in technology, globalization, diverse geopolitical challenges, and a multitude of social, economic, and environmental issues.


Since everyone understands the world from his/her own perspective which may be different from others due to religions beliefs we cannot understand what wholeness is.


Our world is beautiful but screwed.


71% water, average 93,000,000 miles away from a white star, around which it completes an elliptical orbit every 365.25 days with a dominant species are Homo Sapiens, which can live anywhere. It has one large satellite measuring 2,159 miles in diameter which is some 239,000 miles distant and is tidally locked.


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With it’s current greedy drive for more – more this, more that, more me, me, me. causing greater and greater stress to the planet, earth is experiencing its hottest year on record and massive floods, fires and other climate-related disasters have taken root.


And lack of action on climate change threatens billions of lives and livelihoods.


Most of us know this but we don’t know when something amazing or horrible will happen next and it could be the greatest or worst thing for this world.


Like the opening of a massive technological gap between the global rich and the poor.


As our World becomes more disaster prone due to the extreme changes to our Climate, these vestibules of self-interest will be dumped for hardline practical leaders who will do whatever is necessary for the survival of mankind.


In the mean time all we do is fight over utterly meaningless bullshit.


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We carry affordable supercomputers in our pockets, and that is even more powerful than it sounds.


    

  • It has created multiple civilizations, none of which has been able to achieve a satisfactory minimum level of quality of life; the poorest people still live in inhumane conditions; the very few richest people own more than the all of the rest put together.
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  • Most markets are moving online, moving from the physical world into the digital app world, until they’ll be purged there too by oligarchies; which will be the next medium?
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  • Right wing politics and populism continue to gain ground through advocating individual freedom to prosper, while left wing politics is failing to establish and administer a necessary minimum of social equality and governmental regulation, which continues to propagate financial deregulation aka greed is good which in turn prevents a normal fluctuation of economy turning it into steep growth and catastrophic chain reaction crashes.
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  • The extreme conservatism of certain societies founded on medieval concepts and flawed morals coupled with perpetual poverty and social stagnation certainly help maintaining inequality in the world.
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  • Alternatively, we may destroy ourselves in the midst of our seemingly endless growth, and nature will resume its course over the centuries and millenia to come.
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  • How can anyone with an active mind, who is aware of all this, neatly summarize his or her POV “of the world today” with A SINGLE WORD???????
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  • Pretty nonsensical, if you take a couple of minutes to think about it.
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The chances of wholeness happening now are roughly zero.


Why?


Because politicians who were starved of intelligent thinking and ARE BEING ELECTED INTO OFFICE BY DIGITLIZED CITIZENS RUN BY PROFIT SEEKING ALGORITHMS.


Recent advances in artificial intelligence raise a variety of questions about how to control a technology that could improve or threaten civilization in countless ways.


The Doomsday Clock that has been ticking for 77 years.  The clock isn’t designed to definitively measure existential threats, but rather to spark conversations about difficult scientific topics such as climate change. Trends continue to point ominously towards global catastrophe.


Due to ongoing concerns about the war in Ukraine, the Israel-Gaza conflict, the potential of a nuclear arms race, and the climate crisis, its almost impossible to get people’s attention about existential threats and the required action.


We can reduce them but doing so is not easy, nor has it ever been. It requires serious work and global engagement at all levels of society.


The war in Ukraine poses an ever-present risk of nuclear escalation. And the October 7 attack in Israel and war in Gaza provides further illustration of the horrors of modern war, even without nuclear escalation.


A more realistic endpoint to both wars would be a military ceasefire, in which increasingly exhausted combatants see frontline positions harden around a line of control. That will become clearer by the summer or autumn, and will at some point prompt a question for its western backers: how long should the west continue supplying military aid at current levels to Ukraine/Israel


This requires a collective even harder stance.


A political earthquake. That’s the metaphor that stuck.


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What if science itself is in some way culpable for all this?


We don’t know the real answer yet, and we probably will never know, but this is the moment to anticipate what such a finding might ultimately mean. It could obliterate the faith of millions.


This may be the great scientific meta-experiment of the 21st century. That the common people of the world have been forced into a real-life lab experiment, at tremendous cost — there is a moral earthquake on the way.


All of these disasters brought to you by the total, self-assured unanimity of the highly educated people who are supposed to know what they’re doing, plus the total complacency of the highly educated people who are supposed to be supervising them.


A perfect storm, as institutions crumpled and collapsed. with new fault lines targeting up the most powerful country on the planet.


Don’t disengage as digital technology is disrupting international politics in myriad ways.


To start, it is bringing new dimensions to the authoritarian playbook, enabling governments to more easily manipulate information consumed by citizens, to monitor dissent and track political opponents, and to censor communications.


Democracies, meanwhile, are struggling to strike the right balance between rewarding economic innovation and reaping the financial benefits of Big Tech, while protecting user privacy, guarding against surveillance misuses, and countering disinformation and hate speech.


Can democracies strike an appropriate balance between safeguarding their societies from dangerously polarizing online rhetoric while maintaining commitments to protecting free expression?


Can civic activists, independent journalists, and human rights advocates continue to find innovative ways to push back against government repression using new tools, tactics, and technologies?


The answers to these questions are not foretold—all of them represent major areas of contestation.


But one thing is clear. There is an expanding set of countries relying on facial recognition technology, big data analytics, predictive policing techniques, and safe city systems to enhance their security capabilities. There is now a close relationship between authoritarian regimes, constraints on political freedoms, and corresponding government reliance on digital repression techniques.


What technological methods are Gulf states using to enact their political agendas?


What can civil society make of the growth of internet shutdowns and social media blockages around the world?


Government disdain for international human rights principles “is pushing resistance to the breaking point.”


Disinformation has become the tool of choice for many illiberal regimes. From extreme political movements, particularly far-right groups, which harness social media to propagate falsehoods, spread conspiracy theories, and foment polarization and identity politics.


Flooding  social media channels with competing or distracting information that overwhelms legitimate information sources, and deliberately post offensive content on­line to provoke or disrupt conversations


.A bigger question is how much governments should hold platforms responsible for facilitating the spread of bad information .


It is insufficient to blame Facebook or Twitter’s poor leadership for the much more complicated proliferation of politically motivated falsehoods.


These varying global perspectives shed light on emerging areas of contestation and highlight the complexities, urgency, and dangers involved in the advance of digital technologies and their effects on politics globally.


One has only to look at technology usage in the current wars in order to relise that Alogrithms are ruling not just how lives or dies on the battle fields but the direction we all going in our everyday lives.


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How many times have you heard someone say “There’s an app for that.”


Every time you pick up your smartphone, you’re summoning algorithms.


They have become a core part of modern society.


They’re used in all kinds of processes, on and offline, from helping value your home to teaching your robot vacuum to steer clear of your dog’s poop. They’ve increasingly been entrusted with life-altering decisions, such as helping decide who to arrest, who to elect amd who should be released from jail, and who’s is approved for a home loan.


Recent years have seen a spate of innovations in algorithmic processing, from the arrival of powerful language models like GPT-3, to the proliferation of facial recognition technology in commercial and consumer apps. At their heart, they work out what you’re interested in and then give you more of it – using as many data points as they can get their hands on, and they aren’t just on our phones:


At this point, they are responsible for making decisions about pretty much every aspect of our lives.


The consequences can be disastrous and will be, because with AI they are creating themselves. It’s not that the worker gets replaced by just a robot or a machine, but to somebody else who knows how to use AI.


While we can interrogate our own decisions, those made by machines have become increasingly enigmatic.


They can amplify harmful biases that lead to discriminatory decisions or unfair outcomes that reinforce inequalities. They can be used to mislead consumers and distort competition. Further, the opaque and complex nature by which they collect and process large volumes of personal data can put people’s privacy rights in jeopardy.


Currently there are little or no rules/Laws for how companies can or can’t use algorithms in general, or those that harness AI in particular.


Adaptive algorithms have been linked to terrorist attacks and beneficial social movements.


So it’s not to far fetched to say:  That personalised AI is driving people toward self-reinforcing echo chambers of extremism, or to advocate that it is possible that someone could ask AI to create a virus, or an alternative to money.


Where is this all going to end up?


A conscious robot faking emotions – like Sorrow – Joy – Sadness – Pain- and the rest, that wants to bond with you.


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It all depends on what you think consciousness is.


Yes a robot could be a thousand time more intelligent than a human, with the question becoming in essence, does any kind of subjective experiences become a consciousness experience. If so the subjective feeling of consciousness is an illusion created by brain processes, that a machine replicates and such a process would be conscious in the way that we are.


At the moment machines with minds are mainstays of science fiction.


Indeed, the concept of a machine with a subjective experience of the world and a first-person view of itself goes against the grain of mainstream AI research. It collides with questions about the nature of consciousness and self—things we still don’t entirely understand.


Even imagining such a machine’s existence raises serious ethical questions that we may never be able to answer. What rights would such a being have, and how might we safeguard them?


It is a machine that thinks and believes it has consciousness how we would know if one were conscious.


Perhaps you can understand, in principle, how the machine is processing information and there are who  are confirmable with that. However an important feature of a learning machine is that its teacher will often be very largely ignorant of quite what is going on inside and has no way of knowing if conscious exists.


And yet, while conscious machines may still be mythical, their very possibility shapes how we think about the machines we are building today.


Can machines think?


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They’re used for everything from recognizing your voice face listening to your heart, arranging your life.


All kinds of things can be algorithms, and they’re not confined to computers with the impact of potential new legislation to limit the influence of algorithms on our lives remaining unclear.


There’s often little more than a basic explanation from tech companies on how their algorithmic systems work and what they’re used for. Take Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has come under scrutiny for tweaking its algorithms in a way that helped incentivize more negative content on the world’s largest social network.


Laws for algorithmic transparency are necessary before specific usages and applications of AI can be regulated.  When it comes to addressing these risks, regulators have a variety of options available, such as producing instructive guidance, undertaking enforcement activity and, where necessary, issuing financial penalties for unlawful conduct and mandating new practices.


We need to force large Internet companies such as Google, Meta, TikTok and others to “give users the option to engage with a platform without being manipulated by algorithms driven by user-specific data in order to shape and manipulate users’ experiences — and give consumers the choice to flip it on or off.


It will inevitably affect others such as Spotify and Netflix that depend deeply on algorithmically-driven curation.


We live in an unfair world, so any model you make is going to be unfair in one way or another.


For example, there have been concerns about whether the data going into facial-recognition technology can make the algorithm racist, not to mention what makes military drones to kill.


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Going forward there are a number of potential areas we could focus on, and, of these, transparency and fairness have been shown to be particularly significant.


Artificial Intelligence as a Driving Force for the Economy and Society and Wars.


In some cases this lack of transparency may make it more difficult for people to exercise their rights – including those under the GDPR. It may also mean algorithmic systems face insufficient scrutiny in some areas (for example from the public, the media and researchers).The 10 Most Important AI Trends For 2024 Everyone Must Be Ready For Now


While legislators scratch their heads over-regulating it,the speed at which artificial intelligence (AI) evolves and integrates into our lives is only going to increase in 2024. Legislators have never been great at keeping pace with technology, but the obviously game-changing nature of AI is starting to make them sit up and take note.


The next generation of generative AI tools will go far beyond the chatbots and image generators becoming more powerful.  We will start to see them embedded into creative platforms and productivity tools, such as generative design tools and voice synthesizers.


Being able to tell the difference between the real and the computer-generated will become an increasingly valuable tool in the critical skills toolbox!


AI ethicists will be increasingly in demand as businesses seem to demonstrate that they are adhering to ethical standards and deploying appropriate safeguards.


95 percent of customer service leaders expect their customers will be served by AI bots at some point in the next three years. Doctors will use it to assist them in writing up patient notes or medical images. Coders will use it to speed up writing software and to test and debug their output.


40% of employment globally is exposed to AI, which rises to 60% in advanced economies.


An example is Adobe’s integration of generative AI into its Firefly design tools, trained entirely on proprietary data, to alleviate fears that copyright and ownership could be a problem in the future.


Quantum computing – capable of massively speeding up certain calculation-heavy compute workloads – is increasingly being found to have applications in AI.


AI can solve really hard, aspirational problems, that people maybe are not capable of solving” such as health, agriculture and climate change,


We need to bridge the gap between AI’s potential and its practical application and whether technology would affect what it means to be human. 


They are already creating a two tier world, of the have and have not, driving inequality to a deep human value of authenticity and presence.


Will new technologies lead us, or are they already leading us and our children to confuse virtual communities and human connection for the real thing?


Generative AI presents a future where creativity and technology are more closely linked than ever before. If they do, then we may lose something precious about what it means to be human.


How can we ensure equal access to the technology?


If we look to A.I. as a happiness provider, we will only create a greater imbalance than we already have.


If AI Algorithms run the world there will be no time off.


Humans are now hackable animals, so AI might save us from ourselves.


AI will become the only thing that understands these embedded systems is scary.


General AI may completely up-end even the contemplation of reason. Not only will “resistance be futile”, it could become inconceivable for a dumbfounded majority.


One thing is certain, in about a hundred years we will have an idea of what makes us different and more intelligent than computers, but dont worry, AI has the potential to change education and the way we learn.


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A global pandemic killing millions of people and forcing entire countries into lockdown.


Then inflation takes off and (not unrelated) one country invades another and the resulting war affects us all.


Whoa! Where on Earth did all that come from?


We have to think about how we got here.


As if we don’t know its all wrapped up in one word   Inequality.Black placard with 'one world' written on it.


The cost of things average people must buy—healthcare, education, housing—tends to have risen more than wages did over the last two decades. Rising inequality across income, race and gender all demand urgent attention. It needs to made clear to leaders that in 2024 their citizens are expecting them to raise their ambition for humanity and deliver bold agreements to tackle poverty, inequality and climate change.


Government’s policy making will need to become more innovative to address such challenges other wise we going to have a left behind technological societies. We’re going to see, unfortunately, more technological unemployment. We’re going to have to think very carefully in political terms and in social terms about the implications of further automation.


Individual responsibility will play a role, too, in areas such as climate change.


To ignore the issue of inequality culture will need to adjust in terms of revisiting some of our values.


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To start thinking outside of the box. We may have to consider very seriously ideas such as a universal basic income.


There are just over 7 billion people living on the planet today, spread between 196 (recognized) countries. Within each of these countries are groups of people with different ethnic backgrounds, different religious beliefs, different political beliefs. It’s because of these differences, you could argue, that the world is plagued by conflict.


Unfortunately, the future isn’t talking. It’s just coming, like it or not and we as individuals need to take ownership of this.


I dont know about you but I realized long ago that globalization was on its last legs. I also realize this isn’t pleasant to think about. Western economies have become knowledge based. This means Marx’s three factors of production (land, labor, capital) now have a fourth.


Politics as a social contract between a sovereign and citizens is no longer working. Each individual’s share of sovereignty, and therefore their freedom, diminishes as the social contract includes more people.


Power now resides with those best able to organize knowledge turning politicians into basically middlemen, bring a shift to direct democracy, with popular social media protests swamping sprawling governments.


We must do more to assertively channel technology to support progress and protect people and the planet.


As we entered the the 2020s it is clear that we are far from unlocking the potential of technology for our toughest challenges. We stand at a critical juncture to put these technologies to work in a responsible way for people and the planet.


Technology and political trends are aligning against mega-powers like the US and China.


How do we reconcile that with democracy in countries with millions of citizens?


Not with “America Alone” ” Brexit” or any other forms of isolation, which are highly problematic, as they are based on anxiety and insecurity, so inevitably create discord and division.


This is obvious to anyone with a brain looking at climate change – trade – wars – inequality – technology’s – and ideologies of I am all right Jack.


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Historically, political regimes tend not to last more than a few centuries.


I’m not sure we can. Some things are so horrible, you don’t want to think about them.


    

  • Today’s great powers have little choice but to spend their way to political stability, which is unsustainable, and/or try to control knowledge, which is difficult.
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  • Nor do we have any elder statesmen or nationally unifying figures whom everyone respects, much less agrees with. This will make our various problems worse.
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  • Ownership rights mean little without a government to protect them and courts to settle disputes.
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  • This world we now inhabit wasn’t always fit for human’s nothing requires it to remain so. At some point, it will develop into something else. When and how that will happen, we don’t know yet. But we know it will.
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  • We haven’t even talked about climate change. Issues like climate change will create further exacerbations on conflicts, and new forms of technological and cyber warfare could threaten countries’ elections and manipulate populations.
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In the last two years: 90% of the data in the world was created.


Now it is up  – technology companies large and small, industry, policy-makers, citizens and consumers alike – to use this power for good, before we run out of time. Now is the opportunity for leaders to step up into this new wave of opportunity and expectation.


We are the first generation to know we’re destroying the world, and we could be the last that can do anything about it. Our leaders are not on track to deliver. We need to ensure we hold our politicians accountable.


Food production is a major driver of wildlife extinction. We need to make wasting our resources unacceptable in all aspects of our life. We can all do more to be more conscious about what we buy, and where we buy it from.


We can and must end poverty and hunger, in all their forms and dimensions by addressing the underlying complex issues of fragility, conflict, and displacement and the looming threat of climate change.


The challenges facing the world are complex and intertwined and require complex solutions.


Another word is about to enter our collective dictionaries: permacrisis. What we do between now and 2030 will determine whether we as a collective species are intelligent or just dumm machines


Solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss won’t come from any one sector: they’ll come from governments, finance, business and civil society.


We’re analyzing satellite images but unable to see the picture that we all live on the same planet.


Like most of us, we are brought up to think in terms of countries with borders and different nationalities.


In some cases, there are natural borders formed by sea or mountains, but often borders between nations are simply abstractions, imaginary boundaries established by agreement or conflict.


How then do we explain nationalism? Why do humans separate themselves into groups and take on different national identities? Maybe different groups are helpful in terms of organisation, but that doesn’t explain why we feel different. Or why different nations compete and fight with one another.


When people are made to feel insecure and anxious, they tend to become more concerned with nationalism, status and success. Poverty and economic instability often lead to increased nationalism and to ethnic conflict.


The world in general does not have a sense of group identity.


If a terrorist’s biggest weapon is terror, climate change is going to inflict terror beyond belief.


Tsunami’s. Earthquake’s, Hurricane’s, Flood’s, War’s


We must shift 85% of the world’s energy supply to non-fossil fuel sources, not grant more oil exploration licences.  Our economies depend on healthy, supportive natural systems.


A more sustainable path is possible. But we need to rally individuals, governments, companies and communities around the world to take action with us over the next decade.


It’s impossible to override the fundamental interconnectedness of the human race.


People from all around the world need to take a stand a citizen’s movement using the NEW BEADY EYE HASHTAG:   #movebeyonditwiththebeadyeye


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