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Have you ever changed the way you behave with money in order to affect your credit score? Then you already know what it's like to alter your behavior to appease
by Cakez0r 7y ago
Have you ever changed the way you behave with money in order to affect your credit score? Then you already know what it's like to alter your behavior to appease an algorithm.
Imagine if you had an employment score. A payscale score. A threat-to-society score. Imagine if the systems that generate these scores are all connected together and can share information with each other. Imagine that these systems are fed information by a growing network of sensors - facial recognition, voice recognition, location tracking. Imagine all the ways that it could affect the way you behave and how such a system would try to optimise away dissidents by denying them services. This is one way that we can go from multiplication to becoming enslaved (or as good as killed) by algorithms. I'm sure there are other plausible paths.