🔮 Data; disarming Intel; ethical AI; Kahoot, Tiktok, drones++ #276
I’m Azeem Azhar. I convene Exponential View to help us understand how our societies and political economy will change under the force of rapidly accelerating technologies.
The near future
😬 Andrew Yang is using the platform he built in the run-up to the 2020 elections to launch a Data Dividend Project, which is supposed to establish data-as-property rights under privacy laws across the US. With all due respect, I don’t think this is a good idea. As I wrote more than a year ago, initiatives such as this are based on the belief that we, the customers, need to “turn the tables on firms like Facebook or Google to take control over our data and determine how it is used, for our own benefit.” But the problem is more complex:
Rather than property rights as the core foundation of the personal data, we need to understand the kaleidoscopic nature of data, that is manifests itself in many different ways, of which property rights might be one limited case.
High-level patterns that emerge out of ag…