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In the aftermath of the tragic attack on a Catholic church in Minneapolis earlier this week opportunists are taking advantage of the fear that the shooting unleashed in many across the nation to vehemently market their pre-crime AI technology. Aaron Cohen, the CEO of GIDEON - an AI "threat detection" platform, joined Fox News yesterday to (rightfully) decry the attack and (wrongly) push his AI that scrapes the internet 24/7 with an "Israeli grade ontology" to preemptively catch potential violent actors.
I think we can all agree that it is in everyone's best interest to try to prevent every single one of these attacks if possible by any means necessary. However, the realist in me knows that "threat detection" AI, AKA pre-crime technology, will be used to curb speech and make examples of individuals who speak out against the power structure. All one has to do is look across the Atlantic to see what governments in the UK, Germany and other parts of Europe are doing to citizens who speak out against immigration policy the old fashioned way, manually sifting through social media posts, to see how technologies like this can be abused.
If we are to believe Mr. Cohen, GIDEON's services will go live across the US next week with a number of police departments and other law enforcement agencies to begin scraping the web for particular types of speech. This is the first of many dominoes to fall. If and when this technology becomes normalized you can guarantee that it will be used to target those who speak out against certain subjects. Those who are targeted may wholly depend on the political leanings of whoever is in office and what they don't like at any particular point in time. It will be a net-negative for freedom and human flourishing in the long-run. Undoubtedly a full out attack on online privacy.
The most disheartening thing about all of this is that it will likely be welcomed with open arms. Some people are scared right now, most of those people don't have an ounce of personal accountability and they will beg the authorities to solve the problem for them. The authorities seem more than happy to oblige by adopting "threat detection" technology to find the badies.
At the end of the day no amount of 24/7 AI surveillance will get to the root of the problem; we live in an incredibly sick society. More specifically, we live in an incredibly sick society that was manufactured for us. The money is broken, big pharma pushes SSRIs via a healthcare system that doesn't aim to cure, the government views people as data points within a spreadsheet that need to be manipulated so that certain economic KPIs will be produced as outputs, people have turned away from God, high time preference degenerate activities are celebrated and we have normalized insane behavior as perfectly rational. The perpetrator of this week's attack being a glaring validation of the last point.
Trying to fix the problem of mass shootings with surveillance tech is a lazy solution that won't produce results. People will remain miserable, route around GIDEON's (and others like it) detection techniques, and nothing will truly change. It is, at best, a band aid over a stab wound. The only way to fix these problems is to attack them at their core. Fix the money so that people can lead lives of dignity and feel as if they have the ability to get ahead. Stop replacing native citizens with immigrants to juice GDP data while trying to convince people that we live in a post-culture world. Stop prescribing people synthetic drugs that warp the chemistry of the brain. Stop normalizing gender dysphoria as anything other than a mental health illness. And, most importantly, stop mocking God and instead encourage people to find solace in faith and their local communities. This list could be way longer, but I have a newborn to attend to.
Pre-crime is here and it should scare the hell out of you and piss you off because it is a sign that those in charge continue to refuse to actually try to solve these problems. If they won't do it, you'll have to do it yourself. Take the prescription drugs out of your life, adopt bitcoin as your money of choice, live not by lies, get active in your community and reject the normalized insanity.
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