• Edward Snowden On Artificial Intelligence & "When The Machines Take Ove

    From Nic@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jun 28 08:43:08 2023
    https://www.thepulse.one/p/edward-snowden-on-artificial-intelligence

    For decades people believed mass surveillance and big data collection
    was a “conspiracy theory.”

    Thanks to whistleblowers like Edward Snowden, who worked for the
    National Security Agency (NSA), we know that every conversation we have
    and every move we make in the real and/or digital world is tracked and
    stored.

    Snowden’s revelations revealed a mass surveillance system that not even George Orwell could have imagined.

    Despite all of this activity being pervasive and illegal, the national
    security state has justified it, claiming it was for our own safety and protection. The masses have bought this idea.

    Those who have exposed the illegal actions of powerful people, like Wikileaks’ Julian Assange <https://www.thepulse.one/p/13-years-ago-julian-assange-published?utm_source=%2Fsearch%2Fassange&utm_medium=reader2>,
    are subjected to prosecution and torture. Yet still, when it comes to
    other global issues, like COVID or climate change, we believe the words
    from the same powerful people and institutions that have been exposed as unethical. Why? Why is sound and legit information and evidence always ridiculed and considered a conspiracy theory just like mass surveillance
    was?

    In terms of dialogue around these major global issues, what we get is
    often not detailed and nuanced, but instead talking points from a mass information warfare system designed to shape the
    perception/consciousness of the masses.

    Big media and politics play the biggest influencers of mass deception.
    Why?So solutions can be proposed by the same powerful interests
    prosecuting those who expose them.

    For example, climate alarmists <https://www.thepulse.one/p/where-did-the-claim-that-97-of-scientists>may
    argue that we may need to block out the sun <https://www.thepulse.one/p/the-white-house-and-billionaires>to stop
    global warming one day. But the important questions to ask are, what is
    the real motive behind this ‘solution?’ Would this even help our environmental woes? At what cost are we to accept their solutions?

    Today, it seems most of today’s solutions are designed to put more power
    and control into the hands of the surveillance state, which seems to
    salivate at the idea of total population control.

    One of the latest tools for this agenda /*could*/be artificial intelligence.


    The Masses Awakening To This Dynamic?

    The good news is the masses are becoming more aware of this deception,
    and are not so quick to accept the same old solutions carte blanche.

    We live in an age where nuanced and meaningful discussions around these
    issues are happing en mass, just not by government and Big Media.

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