The Age of AI

The youtube documentary, The Age of AI digs into the genuine concern for our future with artificial intelligence. This powerful technology serves us with outstanding data that we humans could not fully comprehend without it.  AI is a set of tools to help you optimize an objective function, sometimes for selfish reasons. The companies owning the AI technology ultimately really only care about how to make money off of the user most effectively. 

The world will get adapted to u before you have gotten adapted to these new 

Technologies. It is out of our hands now. We are the users of social media and it's actually using us. Google is searching for information about us without our consent, which is becoming scary. The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a book written by Shoshana Zuboff which claims private human experiences are a free source of raw material fabricated into predictions of human behavior. As other businesses have found out about this new way of gathering data so easily, they have adopted it as well. They want to know what we did, what we are doing right now, and what we will do later, to gather as much data as possible. They want to gather as much information about us so that they can predict our behavior. They do this so they know what ad we would click on what we would buy and what we would search. They can find out if we are happy, sad, or sick and be able to adjust what to sell me or even manipulate me during an election, due to their constant surveillance.

 

Google's new business models for predicting users' future were picked up by other companies, like Facebook. They realize there is so much more data they don’t have and go to buy all the data.  They do this because behavioral prediction is taking uncertainty out of life. Until now, we gave technology a place in our life that made everything easier and better and developed trust with it. We as users are allowing them to take this information from us, because if we don’t want them watching, then we shouldn’t use it. As AI is pushing us towards a new age of prosperity, we still need to be aware of the information that is being stolen from us without our direct consent.