Does this digital cloud merely shadow human life on earth, or does it become a machine that controls us? This is the fear of AI. Yuval Harari brought this point to prominence in recent years, as Hanna Arendt did more abstractly before him. To the extent this data cloud entraps us and wrests away our freedom, to that extent there’s a diametric reorientation reflective of societal metamorphosis. Society’s data cloud is taking control.
Migration from cash to digital economies, and permanent preservation of digitized financial records, reduces privacy, breeds trust, and discourages corruption.
Is Artificial General Intelligence the inevitable way forward?