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From: Hazel Henderson <hazel.henderson at ethicalmarkets.com>
Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 3:51 PM
Subject: FW: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression
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  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
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From: Carnegie This Week <thisweek at carnegieendowment.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 6:37 PM
To: Hazel Henderson <hazel.henderson at ethicalmarkets.com>
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. After years
of struggling with gender equality and representation, Indian women are
rapidly gaining ground in the country’s male-dominated, conservative
society. Politicians are starting to pay attention.

Milan Vaishnav and Jamie Hintson

Read More<http://go.carnegieendowment.org/Y0o9i1gV600Ng000nPP03Vn>

  Asia

[Can South Korea’s President Moon Make Peace With North Korea?]<
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Can South Korea’s president make peace with North Korea? Moon Jae-in is a
progressive and pragmatic politician, bent on bringing peace to the Korean
Peninsula and securing his legacy. But his waning popularity amid economic
stumbles at home could get in the way.

Chung Min Lee and Kathryn Botto

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  Europe

[What’s in Store for Trump and Europe in 2019?]<
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The transatlantic relationship is on the rocks—here are three things to
look out for in 2019. As the Trump administration continues to clash with
European leaders over defense, trade, and international institutions, the
new year promises new challenges to the liberal order.

Erik Brattberg

Read More<http://go.carnegieendowment.org/z0Ng0on0009PV7inP6k1V00>

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[Philippine Politics Under Duterte: A Midterm Assessment]<
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Democracy is in trouble in the Philippines. President Rodrigo Duterte’s
brutal drug war and crass statements have attracted global controversy and
media attention. But the president’s disturbing assault on human rights
isn’t the only threat to good governance.

David G. Timberman

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