Maintaining our privacy has become almost impossible, and the future doesn’t seem much better. During some talks with investors, Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, stated that AI could be essential for monitoring the population and maintaining “good behavior.”
According to Ellison, keeping the population safe will require millions of cameras to spy on our every move. According to Business Insider, the current CTO of Oracle described a future where cameras and drones would be necessary to ensure that both the police and citizens could not break the law.
The billionaire predicted that AI would be vital for analyzing all the visual information collected by security cameras and others. “Citizens will behave in the best possible way because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that happens.”
As expected, behind this effort to preserve the safety of citizens lies none other than money. Currently, Oracle is collaborating with NVIDIA to deploy large AI infrastructures to companies and governments. During the Q&A session with investors, Ellison recounted that during a dinner with Elon Musk and Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, both Musk and he “begged” Huang for more GPUs: “Please, take our money… we need you to take more of our money.”
On the other hand, this hypothetical future makes us question to what extent we are willing to give up our privacy. A great example of this is China and its Sharp Eyes program. This technology collected information on Chinese citizens and all their activity thanks to a system of millions of surveillance cameras spread throughout the country.
Source: ArtsTechnica
