p2p-f ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Hazel Henderson <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:51 PM Subject: FW: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Cc: Ethical Markets <[email protected]>, Rosalinda Sanquiche < [email protected]>, Nikos Avlonas <[email protected]>, Bauwens, Michel <[email protected]>, Olson, Robert <[email protected]>, Clem Bezold <[email protected]>, Kuttner, Robert ([email protected]) < [email protected]>, [email protected] < [email protected]>, [email protected] < [email protected]>, [email protected] < [email protected]>, Steve LeVine <[email protected]>, Glenn, Jerome ( [email protected]) <[email protected]>, [email protected] < [email protected]>, [email protected] < [email protected]>, Matthews, Jessica Tuchman < [email protected]>, Russell,Judith <[email protected]>, The Honorable Robert Graham <[email protected]>, Savio, Roberto < [email protected]>, Lippin, Richard A. MD ([email protected]) < [email protected]>, Carl Hodges ([email protected]) < [email protected]>, Grunwald, Michael <[email protected]>, Achenbach, Joel ([email protected]) <[email protected]>, Tom Friedman <[email protected]> Hi Julie :Please post this on our daily LATEST HEADLINES for our 32,000 professional subscribers worldwide and on our Wealth of Networks, Reforming Global Finance, Global Citizens and TrendSpotting pages, with this intro : “Ethical Markets highly recommends this article “ The Road to Digital Unfreedom” from the Carnegie Endowment ,which documents the current use of digital surveillance by autocratic regimes , facilitated by the dangers of mis-use of human-trained machine intelligence ( so-called AI ) now tracking individuals and groups. Dictatorships are using big data collection schemes , surveillance , face-recognition , bots and trolls on social media sites , forged video and audio, to mislead and confuse citizens with widespread bias in algorithms trained by narrow demographic profiles and prejudices of most trainers and coders. While this article is an important, well-documented wake-up call to policymakers and civic organizations , it does not focus attention on the same mis-uses by corporations in psychographic tracking of social media users’ personal data , movements , health status , driving and other habits for advertising purposes and selling this data to brokers and marketers. The profit-making uses of AI and proliferating tracking devices in “smart homes “ , digital assistants , etc. were all showcased at the recent Las Vegas expo. Nor does this article propose or document the many creative responses now being debated : including the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); pushbacks by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU and other civic groups; the calls for anti-trust enforcement laws to be applied to social media monopolies . These include Facebook, Google, Amazon , Twitter and the need to change their business models to Those earlier ,subscription-based like AOL, (rather than selling their users’ data and advertising); divesting of the some 450 smaller competitors they have bought up (e.g. Instagram, WhatsApp, and others), pass the bill in Congress to force them to conform to disclosure standards required of all other media, or regulate these media giants as public utilities. We hope that the publisher of this article, the Carnegie Endowment can join with Ethical Markets and the many policymakers now working to re-fund the US Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which operated from 1975 until shut down in 1996 by the Republican majority in Congress, led by then-Speaker Newt Gingrich. This agency , worked with US universities and experts , to assessed the social and environmental long-term consequences of introduction of new technologies like so-called “AI“ and social media, to alert and inform Congressmembers, as I reported in “The Future of Democracy Challenged in the Digital Age”< http://www.ethicalmarkets.com/cadmus-the-future-of-democracy-challenged-in-the-digital-age/> CADMUS, Oct. 2018. Hazel Henderson, Editor (for full disclosure, I served on the OTA Technology Assessment Advisory Council from 1975-1980)” Comments welcome ! Thanks, Hazel [cid:[email protected]] From: Carnegie This Week <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 6:37 PM To: Hazel Henderson <[email protected]> Subject: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression Plus women in India and South Korea [Carnegie Endowment for International Peace]< http://go.carnegieendowment.org/NP00ZPNo000n6hV1bV90g0n> How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression< http://go.carnegieendowment.org/LN90VP00n10i0Pdg60n0o0V> Around the world, new technology is accelerating the resurgence of authoritarianism. From facial-recognition software to social media algorithms, sophisticated artificial intelligence capabilities are helping repressive regimes achieve new levels of control and manipulation. Steven Feldstein Read More<http://go.carnegieendowment.org/toV60N0iPg0ne01VP9000n1> India [The Women Who Fought to Ban Alcohol]< http://go.carnegieendowment.org/Xon06fP0V100Vi9gN00nP20> In the world’s largest democracy, women hold the keys to power. 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