ACM, Ethics, and Corporate Behavior
Blaming technology for societal failures... here we go again. Development of more powerful technology will always require development of responsible regulations. It&#x27;s not a good argument toward becoming a nation of Luddites, and more importantly, abdicating our regulatory responsibility to the companies who stand to profit from it.<p>&gt; AI technology is the fundamental technology that underlies &quot;Surveillance Capitalism,&quot;<p>How about this -- <i>capitalism</i> is the fundamental system of economics that underlies &quot;Surveillance Capitalism&quot;.<p><i>To the deleted comment:</i><p>My point in turning that statement around is that if you see surveillance capitalism as being bad (the author says this plainly), then perhaps the discussion is really about economic policies and not AI.<p>The author bends over backwards to paint nebulous &quot;AI&quot; and &quot;machine learning&quot; in a bad light over problems that existed long before their arrival. What these more powerful tools have done is to ramp up the problems and put them front and center. But in the end, the economic profitability of surveillance capitalism has never been challenged.<p>Nothing in this article really has to do with AI at all, and it&#x27;s confusing why the author spends so much time trying to draw up so much negative sentiment, in order to deflect from the real underlying issues.