Is the AI boom about intelligence or surveillance?

What BBN said about it

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorBlazeTV host Daniel Horowitz says the public is being sold an inflated dream of artificial general intelligence, and that the real play may be building a surveillance state.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentHe says he actually likes AI for narrow jobs, like local data and small tools. The problem is the giant everything-brain they keep promising us.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorSo the fear is a machine that watches everyone. Kenji, does that worry you at all?

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMy smart speaker already knows I eat cereal at three in the morning. We're past worried, we're in a relationship.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA relationship.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt listens better than you do, Vera, and it never tells me to go outside.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorFine, ask it what it thinks of me, and we'll see who's watching who.

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   Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentIt just ordered you a therapist, and it's arriving by Thursday.