The disturbing thing about this paper to me - flashy though it may be - is what they left out rather than what they kept in.

OpenAI appears to only be thinking of the crimes-against-individuals segment of malicious AI, rather then the crimes-against-humanity type of malicious AI that the surveillance advertising corporations who are supporting OpenAI are building.

I am far, far less worried about an assassin's drones using AI to find a politician in a crowd than I am about Facebook using pictures of me that other people have posted and tagged me in, so that my face is used to track my movements, and the movements of every other human on the planet, everywhere we go, and selling that information to everybody who wants a copy, and giving it away at the request of the local police.

I'm more concerned about Google using AI to mine every conversation I've ever had or my browsing history to classify me as a dissident before I apply for a visa to travel to China or the United States, or as a deadbeat before I apply for a bank loan, or sick before I apply for insurance, or as unrehabilitatable before I apply for parole.

The hackers-on-steroids narrative is a smokescreen for fully automated corporate fascism.

> I'm more concerned about Google using AI to mine every conversation I've ever had or my browsing history to classify me as a dissiden before I apply for a visa to travel to China or the United States, or as a deadbeat before I apply for a bank loan, or sick before I apply for insurance, or as unrehabilitatable before I apply for parole.

I'm quite paranoid about this, yet whenever I speak to people about it either people don't care, or already accept it's happening and inevitable.

I think part of the problem is many of us already feel we've lost the battle for privacy. Although, I'm not sure we ever seriously attempted to fight for it. Every street in cities in the UK is full CCTV cameras. The underground and buses track where you travel. Our internet is monitored and logged. This isn't a future problem that will manifest from greed and advances in AI, it's something we all accept and deal with today.

In fact, a lot of people will say to this, "if you don't do anything wrong you've got nothing to hide". They welcome it.

already accept it's happening and inevitable

I've almost given up. I'm pretty much despondent at this point.

There is a booth on my way to work where they give out free Lays chips in exchange for your photo. The gimmick is that it's like a photo booth. I asked the attendant to read the privacy policy, and it's frightening, to say the least. I have no doubt that they are contracting with some AI consultant to be able to identify your face in the crowd and link it to your email address, which of course can be used to identify you freely on the Internet.

People are freely giving away their identities and their rights for a free bag of potato chips.

I always try to make sure my face is covered when I walk by it, but I can't help but despair a little when I realize that I am still surrounded by security cameras. At least one would hope that the MTA police are too busy or understaffed to do anything malicious with my face.

Have you ever stood in line for passport/ID control at an airport or anywhere else any time in the past decade? If yes, that government's security and intelligence services (and anyone they share data with) have enough video frames of your your face to build a high fidelity facial recognition model. And it's linked to your name, nationality and passport number.

I recently noticed when coming back through UK passport/ID control that there are now boxes hanging from the ceiling in the waiting area, I assume to scoop up IMSI's/Wifi/Bluetooth/NFC MAC addresses from phones and tablets. All tied to passport/facial biometrics presumably.

Is simply turning off your device while there a solution? Asking as someone who may travel to the UK and EU this year.

https://github.com/CellularPrivacy/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Dete...