Age of AI

 Age of AI and Privacy Concerns

Over the past couple of years AI has grown and developed, it has been deemed useful but also rising some concerns for peoples jobs, students cheating, etc. After watching Frontline PBS: The Age of AI documentary they highlighted AI's effect on the impact on employment, ethical and societal impacts, and surveillance and privacy concerns.

One thing that frightened me most was the surveillance and privacy concerns. One of the main concerns to the public is how governments use AI to monitor individuals. In the documentary they talk about China's usage of AI to surveil their people. China has multiple things like facial recognition through their security cameras that can detect every person the camera catches. They also have a social credit systems that assigns scores based on behaviors as well as monitoring minorities with their country. Although these issues don't affect me personally they still make me uncomfortable for Chinese citizens because their government shouldn't need to monitor them this much. 

Although not as extreme the United States and European countries use AI on their citizens as well. They use it for things such as license plate readers, surveillance drones, and predictive policing which is a system that uses data to identify potential criminals. So yes, the United States usage of AI isn't as extreme as China's, it also could make people feel just as uncomfortable. The predictive policing, although could be useful in some cases also feels like a big invasion of privacy because it allows the government to go through your data and analyze it. So things such as google searches, apps, texts, etc could all potentially be used to surveil you as a potential criminal. 

As we all know AI is here to stay and it will continue to grow. Although there are a lot of concerns around what people will use it for, at the moment there isn't a lot we can do to regulate it since it's still such a new concept. However we can acknowledge how some people may use AI for invasive things and continue to stay aware on the issue.