Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Programming AI to Program...Us? (part 2)


In Google's defense, they stated that the internally circulated Selfish Ledger video was only a “thought experiment” by their Design Team using “a technique known as 'speculative design' to explore uncomfortable ideas and concepts to provoke discussion and debate.” Supposedly, according to Google, “It's not related to any future products.” Yet one of the ideas in the video suggests that your data doesn't belong to you—an idea that is already becoming more mainstream in our society today. The data on our actions, decisions, preferences, movement, and relationships is collected through our phones and used by Google to form our data profile. Perhaps our only recourse for privacy is turning our phones off, because the mindset that our data doesn't belong to us fuels the concept that our phone is a user data-collection device for Google and other interested parties. Google knows that very few of us will choose to turn off our phones or do without them, so we are tacitly ushering in a new age of monitoring and manipulation. But how does Google plan to manipulate us with this data?

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