{"id":48639,"date":"2019-09-25T06:51:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48639"},"modified":"2019-09-25T06:51:18","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:51:18","slug":"normal-intrusions-globalising-ai-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=48639","title":{"rendered":"Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/orientalreview.org\/2019\/09\/24\/normal-intrusions-globalising-ai-surveillance\/\">Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities.&nbsp; They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of \u201csecurity\u201d.&nbsp; Call it surveillance, or call it monitoring the global citizenry; it all comes down to the same thing.&nbsp; You are being watched for your own good, and such instances should be regarded as a norm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given the weaknesses of international law and the general hiccupping that accompanies efforts to formulate a global right to privacy, few such restrictions, or problems, preoccupy those in surveillance.&nbsp; The entire business is burgeoning, a viral complex that does not risk any abatement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace has released an unnerving&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2019\/09\/17\/global-expansion-of-ai-surveillance-pub-79847\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a>&nbsp;confirming that fact, though irritatingly using an index in doing so.&nbsp; Its focus is Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology.&nbsp; A definition of sorts is offered for AI, being \u201can integrated system that incorporates information acquisition objectives, logical reasoning principles, and self-correction capacities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When stated like that, the whole matter seems benign.&nbsp; Machine learning, for instance, \u201canalyses a large amount of information in order to discern a pattern to explain the current data and predict future uses.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are several perturbing highlights supplied by the report\u2019s author, Steven Feldstein.&nbsp; The relationship between military expenditure and states\u2019 use of AI surveillance systems is noted, with \u201cforty of the world\u2019s top fifty military spending countries (based on cumulative military expenditures) also [using] AI surveillance technology.\u201d&nbsp; Across 176 countries, data gathered since 2017 shows that AI surveillance technologies are not merely good domestic fare but a thriving export business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ideological bent of the regime in question is no bar to the use of such surveillance.\u00a0 Liberal democracies are noted as major users, with 51 percent of \u201cadvanced democracies\u201d doing so.\u00a0 That number, interestingly enough, is less than \u201cclosed autocratic states\u201d (37 percent); \u201celectoral autocratic\/competitive autocratic states\u201d (41 percent) and \u201celectoral democracies\/illiberal democracies\u201d (41 percent).\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Normal Intrusions: Globalising AI Surveillance They all do it: corporations, regimes, authorities.&nbsp; They all have the same reasons: efficiency, serviceability, profitability, all under the umbrella term of \u201csecurity\u201d.&nbsp; Call it surveillance, or call it monitoring the global citizenry; it all comes down to the same thing.&nbsp; You are being watched for your own good, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[13681,15948,21324],"class_list":["post-48639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-ai","tag-binoy-kampmark","tag-the-oriental-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48640,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48639\/revisions\/48640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}