Hank: as artificial intelligence improves, even small amounts of personal data will be enough to profile people (2018)
prediction · status: unresolved · last event: predicted (2018-04-13) · owner: Hank
In 2018, Hank said that as artificial intelligence improves, even small amounts of personal data will likely be enough to profile people.
About: artificial intelligence
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-04-13 | predicted | As artificial intelligence improves, even small amounts of data will likely be enough: smaller and smaller signals are becoming clearer. (hedged) | Who is in Control? 00:02:02 |
What is said about it
7 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Hank: Machines can now tell a man's sexual orientation from profile photos with 91% accuracy. — 00:02:08
- 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Hank: Facebook is worth half a trillion dollars because it can capture your attention and because of what it knows about you. — 00:02:16
- 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Hank: Fed enough data, machines infer shocking detail from tiny input and will use your worldview and emotional state to help paying others manipulate you; not a conspiracy, but their business model. — 00:02:27
- 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Hank: Facebook isn't the product being sold, since it is free: you are not the customer but the product, and on the social internet your attention is their dollars. — 00:02:43
- 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Hank: For the platforms anything that gains attention is good, and whether they regard truth, social stability or their users' health is, for now, entirely up to them. — 00:02:54
- 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Hank: Some will dig into these issues, but most people won't have time; and we need Facebook, which is socially expected, necessary and useful, so we're trapped. — 00:03:08
- 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Hank: The only thing to do is to remember and help others learn: if you don't control the feed, the feed is controlling you. — 00:03:24