We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads
|Inspiring and terrifying TED talk by Zeynep Tufekci about the crisis of building AI to maximize profit from advertising.
Notes
- I’ve been trying to convince people of this for years after reading Eben Moglen’s ‘Snowden and The Future’ talk:
- http://snowdenandthefuture.info/
- we need to figure out how to force these businesses to change and defend ourselves
- Google, Facebook and Amazon have business models tha try to find our weaknesses to exploit for profit
- as they develop their AI to better find weaknesses and increase their ability to manipulate and control us they are pushing us towards a distopia