We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads | Zeynep Tufekci

We're building an artificial intelligence-powered dystopia, one click at a time, says technosociologist Zeynep Tufecki. In an eye-opening talk, she details how the same algorithms companies...

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So when people voice fears of artificial intelligence,very often, they invoke images of humanoid robots run amok.You know? Terminator?You know, that might be something to consider,but that's a distant threat.Or, we fret about digital surveillancewith metaphors from the past."1984," George Orwell's "1984,"it's hitting the bestseller lists again.It's a great book,but it's not the correct dystopia for the 21st century.What we need to fear mostis not what artificial intelligence will do to us on its own,but how the people in power will use artificial intelligenceto control us and to manipulate usin novel, sometimes hidden,subtle and unexpected ways.Much of the technologythat threatens our freedom an...