Here is what Yuval Noah Harari had to say about how AI tools will accumulate more data on people for monitoring and controlling you.
“Part of what is happening today in so many areas, is that you can think about the whole of life becoming one whole long job interview. Like if you now apply for a job, something you did ten years, ago, twenty years ago – it suddenly pops up there and defines who you are today. You told a racist joke, ten years ago. You yelled at somebody, fifteen years ago. It pops up. ‘Hey, that’s who you are. We know who you are. You’re not going to get this job.’ And no. The more data we accumulate on people, the more powerful all these AI tools are; the more important it is to bake into the system the value of change. That people can change. Otherwise again, like you are twenty years old, you go to some party, you have to think this can meet me down the road in twenty years, when I want to be, I don’t know, Supreme Court Justice.”
Yuval Noah Harari: Life will soon be one long job interview…. and you won’t get the job. “If you apply for a job, what you did 10 or 20 years ago suddenly pops up and defines who you are today. You told a racist joke, yelled at someone 15 years ago, and it comes out. You won't… pic.twitter.com/l5P43SN4Vc
Yuval Noah Harari: the more data we accumulate on people, the more we will know who they are
Here is what Yuval Noah Harari had to say about how AI tools will accumulate more data on people for monitoring and controlling you.
“Part of what is happening today in so many areas, is that you can think about the whole of life becoming one whole long job interview. Like if you now apply for a job, something you did ten years, ago, twenty years ago – it suddenly pops up there and defines who you are today. You told a racist joke, ten years ago. You yelled at somebody, fifteen years ago. It pops up. ‘Hey, that’s who you are. We know who you are. You’re not going to get this job.’ And no. The more data we accumulate on people, the more powerful all these AI tools are; the more important it is to bake into the system the value of change. That people can change. Otherwise again, like you are twenty years old, you go to some party, you have to think this can meet me down the road in twenty years, when I want to be, I don’t know, Supreme Court Justice.”