A.I. Tech

In the film, pbs.org/frontline "In the Age of A.I.", there was talk about A.I. technology in the lives of society. This video expresses many concerns about how in the major world countries A.I. (artificial intelligence) are contravening privacy and trespassing in people's lives. The film showed China having A.I technology all over their cities, scanning the faces of all the people in the area. This A.I. project "uses AI to give people a "social credit" score, punishing some for certain behavior and rewarding others for what the government considers good citizenship." Xiao Qiang says "China is on its way to building a total surveillance state." With this in mind, the idea of China technologically advancing is scary for other world countries. China could get the power to violate America's privacy in their own country. If this is the case, China will figure out America's secrets and use it as ways to take over out beloved country and look into the lives of the civilians everyday lives.

Alexa, the voice assistant that speaks through an Amazon Echo has been proven to be dangerous to people's privacy. This device is listening to every word someone says all the time. Inputting the Alexa into your home is allowing the device to record the things you say without knowing what will happen to them. Alexa awakes whenever the name "Alexa" is spoken. Once the Alexa is turned on it records your voice and what you are saying. It will collect the information on how people interact based off of what they are saying. Though Alexa has an awake word, it will not exclude other voices. Because of this, Alexa will be engaging with whoever is talking in the room. It is almost like Alexa is constantly listening the surrounding voices in the room it is in. This form of AI technology will learn people's everyday routines, what music they like, things they want, and things they say. This is very dangerous because this can lead to information about yourself getting out into the world for people's viewing pleasure.