Post 5 - Age of AI

 AI: The Future of Technology and the World | by Aniruddha Murali | Towards Data Science

I actually really enjoyed this movie. It reminded me a lot of the first communications fellows movie we watched at the beginning of the year called Coded Bias. It was about the biases of A.I. coding and the impact it has on an increasingly technologically advancing society. The film Age of A.I. discusses both the positive sides and the negative sides of the rapid advancement of technology and how it's being implemented in different parts of the world. 

The most interesting part to me was learning about how they use A.I. and face recognition in China in order to maintain civility as well as to measure the credibility of of people. Applying for a loan is no longer something that has to do with your credibility on paper. It also take into account your past history, your facial expressions while you do it and even the percent your phone battery is at while you apply in order to measure an individual's credibility and responsibility. 

It's kinda scary that even our faces, the most public thing about ourselves, is becoming a weapon to be used against us and our privacy. American and Chinese values are drastically different. Unlike China, the US is a country built on the concepts of freedom, independence, and privacy which would suggest that it would be unlikely for us to reach that point of invasion, but unannounced to many, it very much so is something already affecting us and an industry that is continuing to grow in the states. This can be seen in the way that not only our law enforcement stockpiles and collects our images without our consent for profiling purposes (something they are experimenting with largely in high minority populated areas), but also in our day to day media use (Facebook, Instagram, Google, etc.). Even when we attempt to exist off the grid, we are on the grid and we are being watched. I for one do not like being forced into a spotlight nor for anyone else to hold the power to force me into the spotlight whenever they so choose.

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