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Part of experts' concern about the leap into connecting every home device to the internet and letting computers do our work is that the technology is still buggy and influenced by human errors and prejudices. So we are going to have to deal with that.'Ĭontrary to futuristic fears of 'super-intelligent' robots taking control, the real dangers of our tech era have crept in more prosaically-often in the form of tech innovations we welcomed for making life more convenient. want it to work in a way that obviously does harm, or benefits themselves, or disrupts the political system. 'But now that it's in the hands of the general public, there are people who. 'We were just trying to get it to work,' recalled Cerf, who is now Google's chief internet evangelist. Internet pioneer Vint Cerf said he and other engineers never imagined their vision of a worldwide network of connected computers would morph 45 years later into a surveillance system that collects personal information or a propaganda machine that could sway elections. 'It was necessary to convene this hearing because of the widening gap of distrust between technology companies and the American people,' Republican House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said.

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We may remember 2018 as the year in which technology's dystopian potential became clear, from Facebook's role enabling the harvesting of our personal data for election interference to a seemingly unending series of revelations about the dark side of Silicon Valley's connect-everything ethos. 17, 2017, file photo shows a Facebook logo being displayed in a start-up companies gathering at Paris' Station F, in Paris. That was on top of other Facebook disasters, including its role in fomenting violence in Myanmar, major data breaches and ongoing concerns about its hosting of fake accounts for Russian propaganda. 'It really helped wake up people to the fact that these systems are actually touching the core of our lives and shaping our social institutions,' Whittaker said. Among the most troubling cases was the revelation in March that political data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica swept up personal information of millions of Facebook users for the purpose of manipulating national elections. The group has compiled a long list of what made 2018 so ominous, though many are examples of the public simply becoming newly aware of problems that have built up for years. 'Something that was heartening this year was that accompanying this parade of scandals was a growing public awareness that there's an accountability crisis in tech,' said Meredith Whittaker, a co-founder of New York University's AI Now Institute for studying the social implications of artificial intelligence. Among the most troubling cases of what made 2018 so ominous was the revelation in March that political data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica swept up personal information of millions of Facebook users for the purpose of manipulating national elections. In this April 18, 2018, file photo, a graphic from the Cambridge Analytica website is displayed on a computer screen in New York.

More awaits us in 2019, as surveillance and data-collection efforts ramp up and artificial intelligence systems start sounding more human, reading facial expressions and generating fake video images so realistic that it will be harder to detect malicious distortions of the truth.īut there are also countermeasures afoot in Congress and state government-and even among tech-firm employees who are more active about ensuring their work is put to positive ends. 'It doesn't so much feel like we're living in the future now, as that we're living in a retro-future,' novelist William Gibson wrote this month on Twitter. It's been enough to exhaust even the most imaginative sci-fi visionaries. Electric cars in Shanghai transmitting their every movement to the government. Automated systems that keep tabs of workers' movements and habits.

Repurposing genealogy websites to hunt for crime suspects based on a relative's DNA. ĭoorbells and concert venues that can pinpoint individual faces and alert police.

YouTube algorithms that steer youths into extremism. The list is long: High-tech tools for immigration crackdowns.

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