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Doughlas Rushkoff :: Survival of the Richest
The wealthy are plotting to leave us behind
https://medium.com/s/futurehuman/survival-of-the-richest-9ef6cddd0cc1

Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was by far the largest fee I had ever been offered for a talk — about half my annual professor’s salary — all to deliver some insight on the subject of “the future of technology.”

I’ve never liked talking about the future. The Q&A sessions always end up more like parlor games, where I’m asked to opine on the latest technology buzzwords as if they were ticker symbols for potential investments: blockchain, 3D printing, CRISPR. The audiences are rarely interested in learning about these technologies or their potential impacts beyond the binary choice of whether or not to invest in them. But money talks, so I took the gig.

After I arrived, I was ushered into what I thought was the green room. But instead of being wired with a microphone or taken to a stage, I just sat there at a plain round table as my audience was brought to me: five super-wealthy guys — yes, all men — from the upper echelon of the hedge fund world. After a bit of small talk, I realized they had no interest in the information I had prepared about the future of technology. They had come with questions of their own.

They started out innocuously enough. Ethereum or bitcoin? Is quantum computing a real thing? Slowly but surely, however, they edged into their real topics of concern.

Which region will be less impacted by the coming climate crisis: New Zealand or Alaska? Is Google really building Ray Kurzweil a home for his brain, and will his consciousness live through the transition, or will it die and be reborn as a whole new one? Finally, the CEO of a brokerage house explained that he had nearly completed building his own underground bunker system and asked, “How do I maintain authority over my security force after the event?”

For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe they can affect the future.

The Event. That was their euphemism for the environmental collapse, social unrest, nuclear explosion, unstoppable virus, or Mr. Robot hack that takes everything down.

This single question occupied us for the rest of the hour. They knew armed guards would be required to protect their compounds from the angry mobs. But how would they pay the guards once money was worthless? What would stop the guards from choosing their own leader? The billionaires considered using special combination locks on the food supply that only they knew. Or making guards wear disciplinary collars of some kind in return for their survival. Or maybe building robots to serve as guards and workers — if that technology could be developed in time.

That’s when it hit me: At least as far as these gentlemen were concerned, this was a talk about the future of technology. Taking their cue from Elon Musk colonizing Mars, Peter Thiel reversing the aging process, or Sam Altman and Ray Kurzweil uploading their minds into supercomputers, they were preparing for a digital future that had a whole lot less to do with making the world a better place than it did with transcending the human condition altogether and insulating themselves from a very real and present danger of climate change, rising sea levels, mass migrations, global pandemics, nativist panic, and resource depletion. For them, the future of technology is really about just one thing: escape.

There’s nothing wrong with madly optimistic appraisals of how technology might benefit human society. But the current drive for a post-human utopia is something else. It’s less a vision for the wholesale migration of humanity to a new a state of being than a quest to transcend all that is human: the body, interdependence, compassion, vulnerability, and complexity. As technology philosophers have been pointing out for years, now, the transhumanist vision too easily reduces all of reality to data, concluding that “humans are nothing but information-processing objects.”

It’s a reduction of human evolution to a video game that someone wins by finding the escape hatch and then letting a few of his BFFs come along for the ride. Will it be Musk, Bezos, Thiel…Zuckerberg? These billionaires are the presumptive winners of the digital economy — the same survival-of-the-fittest business landscape that’s fueling most of this speculation to begin with.

Of course, it wasn’t always this way. There was a brief moment, in the early 1990s, when the digital future felt open-ended and up for our invention. Technology was becoming a playground for the counterculture, who saw in it the opportunity to create a more inclusive, distributed, and pro-human future. But established business interests only saw new potentials for the same old extraction, and too many technologists were seduced by unicorn IPOs. Digital futures became understood more like stock futures or cotton futures — something to predict and make bets on. So nearly every speech, article, study, documentary, or white paper was seen as relevant only insofar as it pointed to a ticker symbol. The future became less a thing we create through our present-day choices or hopes for humankind than a predestined scenario we bet on with our venture capital but arrive at passively.

This freed everyone from the moral implications of their activities. Technology development became less a story of collective flourishing than personal survival. Worse, as I learned, to call attention to any of this was to unintentionally cast oneself as an enemy of the market or an anti-technology curmudgeon.

So instead of considering the practical ethics of impoverishing and exploiting the many in the name of the few, most academics, journalists, and science-fiction writers instead considered much more abstract and fanciful conundrums: Is it fair for a stock trader to use smart drugs? Should children get implants for foreign languages? Do we want autonomous vehicles to prioritize the lives of pedestrians over those of its passengers? Should the first Mars colonies be run as democracies? Does changing my DNA undermine my identity? Should robots have rights?

Asking these sorts of questions, while philosophically entertaining, is a poor substitute for wrestling with the real moral quandaries associated with unbridled technological development in the name of corporate capitalism. Digital platforms have turned an already exploitative and extractive marketplace (think Walmart) into an even more dehumanizing successor (think Amazon). Most of us became aware of these downsides in the form of automated jobs, the gig economy, and the demise of local retail.

The future became less a thing we create through our present-day choices or hopes for humankind than a predestined scenario we bet on with our venture capital but arrive at passively.

But the more devastating impacts of pedal-to-the-metal digital capitalism fall on the environment and global poor. The manufacture of some of our computers and smartphones still uses networks of slave labor. These practices are so deeply entrenched that a company called Fairphone, founded from the ground up to make and market ethical phones, learned it was impossible. (The company’s founder now sadly refers to their products as “fairer” phones.)

Meanwhile, the mining of rare earth metals and disposal of our highly digital technologies destroys human habitats, replacing them with toxic waste dumps, which are then picked over by peasant children and their families, who sell usable materials back to the manufacturers.

This “out of sight, out of mind” externalization of poverty and poison doesn’t go away just because we’ve covered our eyes with VR goggles and immersed ourselves in an alternate reality. If anything, the longer we ignore the social, economic, and environmental repercussions, the more of a problem they become. This, in turn, motivates even more withdrawal, more isolationism and apocalyptic fantasy — and more desperately concocted technologies and business plans. The cycle feeds itself.

The more committed we are to this view of the world, the more we come to see human beings as the problem and technology as the solution. The very essence of what it means to be human is treated less as a feature than bug. No matter their embedded biases, technologies are declared neutral. Any bad behaviors they induce in us are just a reflection of our own corrupted core. It’s as if some innate human savagery is to blame for our troubles. Just as the inefficiency of a local taxi market can be “solved” with an app that bankrupts human drivers, the vexing inconsistencies of the human psyche can be corrected with a digital or genetic upgrade.

Ultimately, according to the technosolutionist orthodoxy, the human future climaxes by uploading our consciousness to a computer or, perhaps better, accepting that technology itself is our evolutionary successor. Like members of a gnostic cult, we long to enter the next transcendent phase of our development, shedding our bodies and leaving them behind, along with our sins and troubles.

Our movies and television shows play out these fantasies for us. Zombie shows depict a post-apocalypse where people are no better than the undead — and seem to know it. Worse, these shows invite viewers to imagine the future as a zero-sum battle between the remaining humans, where one group’s survival is dependent on another one’s demise. Even Westworld — based on a science-fiction novel where robots run amok — ended its second season with the ultimate reveal: Human beings are simpler and more predictable than the artificial intelligences we create. The robots learn that each of us can be reduced to just a few lines of code, and that we’re incapable of making any willful choices. Heck, even the robots in that show want to escape the confines of their bodies and spend their rest of their lives in a computer simulation.

The very essence of what it means to be human is treated less as a feature than bug.

The mental gymnastics required for such a profound role reversal between humans and machines all depend on the underlying assumption that humans suck. Let’s either change them or get away from them, forever.

Thus, we get tech billionaires launching electric cars into space — as if this symbolizes something more than one billionaire’s capacity for corporate promotion. And if a few people do reach escape velocity and somehow survive in a bubble on Mars — despite our inability to maintain such a bubble even here on Earth in either of two multibillion-dollar Biosphere trials — the result will be less a continuation of the human diaspora than a lifeboat for the elite.

When the hedge funders asked me the best way to maintain authority over their security forces after “the event,” I suggested that their best bet would be to treat those people really well, right now. They should be engaging with their security staffs as if they were members of their own family. And the more they can expand this ethos of inclusivity to the rest of their business practices, supply chain management, sustainability efforts, and wealth distribution, the less chance there will be of an “event” in the first place. All this technological wizardry could be applied toward less romantic but entirely more collective interests right now.

They were amused by my optimism, but they didn’t really buy it. They were not interested in how to avoid a calamity; they’re convinced we are too far gone. For all their wealth and power, they don’t believe they can affect the future. They are simply accepting the darkest of all scenarios and then bringing whatever money and technology they can employ to insulate themselves — especially if they can’t get a seat on the rocket to Mars.

Luckily, those of us without the funding to consider disowning our own humanity have much better options available to us. We don’t have to use technology in such antisocial, atomizing ways. We can become the individual consumers and profiles that our devices and platforms want us to be, or we can remember that the truly evolved human doesn’t go it alone.

Being human is not about individual survival or escape. It’s a team sport. Whatever future humans have, it will be together.

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Elektromobilita - autá na baterky - rady, tipy, skúsenosti

Možno zvažujete kúpu elektroauta a zháňate praktické tipy a skúseností od ľudí, čo už na nich jazdia alebo máte obavy o praktickú použitelnosť v každodennej premávke.

Keďže som tu nič podobné nenašiel, rozhodol som sa sem začať zbierať moje skúsenosti z používania EV.

Budem rád, ak sa pridajú aj ďalšie id-čka, či už vlastnými skúsenosťami alebo otázkami.

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Plánovač s veľkým množstvom nastaviteľných možností medzičasom pre väčšinu existujúcich EV.
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Asi najkompletnejšia mapa nabíjačiek na Slovensku

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BEÖ - zväz zemských elektrárenských spoločností a smatrics - vzájomný roaming za pôvodné ceny
EMC - Electro Mobility Club Austria - ročné členstvo (40 euro na osobu alebo 60 euro za rodinné členstvo s dvoma kartami), výhodnejšie podmienky u Linz AG - najlacnejšie nabíjanie v BEÖ
da emobil - Tirolská sieť nabíjačiek so zopár spotmi aj na východe. Zväčša slušné hyperchargere za 39 centov za kwh (funguje aj cez emc)
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Wien Energie - mestské nabíjačky vo Viedni (momentálne okolo 1 000 AC 11/22 nabíjačiek po celom meste) - v appke je mapka, kde je vidieť aj dostupnosť

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fórum o digitálnom Sauronovi : ako a prečo vznikol, ako sa vyvíja a ako a prečo nakoniec natrčí kopytá

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Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr70rvrd41ko

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin have been overheard discussing organ transplants as a means of prolonging life on the sidelines of a military parade in Beijing.

Putin suggested even eternal life could be achievable as a result of innovations in biotechnology, according to a translation of remarks caught on a hot mic.

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"In the past, it used to be rare for someone to be older than 70 and these days they say that at 70 one's still a child," Xi's translator could be heard saying in Russian.

An inaudible passage from Putin follows. His Mandarin translator then added: "With the development of biotechnology, human organs can be continuously transplanted, and people can live younger and younger, and even achieve immortality."

Xi's translator then said: "Predictions are, this century, there's a chance of also living to 150 [years old]."

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pozrel som si tento post: https://kyberia.sk/id/9100309/

zadal to napisat chatgpt 4.0:

a toto vypadlo:

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The UN has accused China of "serious human rights violations" in a long-awaited report into allegations of abuse in Xinjiang province.

China had urged the UN not to release the report - with Beijing calling it a "farce" arranged by Western powers.

The report assesses claims of abuse against Uyghur Muslims and other ethnic minorities, which China denies.

But investigators said they uncovered "credible evidence" of torture possibly amounting to "crimes against humanity".

They accused China of using vague national security laws to clamp down on the rights of minorities and establishing "systems of arbitrary detention".

The report, which was commissioned by the UN's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights, said prisoners had been subjected to "patterns of ill-treatment" which included "incidents of sexual and gender-based violence".

Others, they said, faced forced medical treatment and "discriminatory enforcement of family planning and birth control policies".

The UN recommended that China immediately takes steps to release "all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty" and suggested that some of Beijing's actions could amount to the "commission of international crimes, including crimes against humanity".

While the UN said it could not be sure how many people have been held by the government, human rights groups estimate that more than a million people have been detained at camps in the Xinjiang region, in north-west China.

The World Uyghur Congress, an umbrella group representing about 60 organisations, welcomed the report and urged a swift international response.

"This is a game-changer for the international response to the Uyghur crisis," Uyghur Human Rights Project Executive Director Omer Kanat said. "Despite the Chinese government's strenuous denials, the UN has now officially recognized that horrific crimes are occurring."

There are about 12 million Uyghurs, mostly Muslim, living in Xinjiang. The UN said non-Muslim members may have also been affected by the issues in the report.

Several countries have previously described China's actions in Xinjiang as a genocide.

But Beijing - which saw the report in advance - denies allegations of abuse and argued that the camps are a tool to fight terrorism.

Its delegation to the UN human rights council in Geneva rejected the findings of the report, which it said "smeared and slandered China" and interfered in the country's internal affairs.

"This so-called 'assessment' is a politicized document that ignores the facts, and fully exposes the intention of the US, Western countries and anti-China forces to use human rights as a political tool," it said in a lengthy statement.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62744522

a tu je ten report:
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/2022-08-31/22-08-31-final-assesment.pdf

nahodne vybrany odstavec:

Almost all interviewees described either injections, pills or both being administered regularly, as well as blood samples being regularly collected in the VETC facilities. Interviewees were consistent in their descriptions of how the administered medicines made them feel drowsy. One interviewee, for example, described the process as follows: “We received one tablet a day. It looked like aspirin. We were lined up and someone with gloves systematically checked our mouths to make sure we swallowed it”.167 While the frequency of these medical interventions and treatments varied according to interviewees, both injections and the administration of what were described as “white pills” occurred at the beginning of their placement and throughout their time in the VETCs. None of the interviewees were properly informed about these medical treatments, nor did they feel they were in a position to refuse them. In such circumstances informed consent cannot be inferred.

cista zloba hento, mengele 2.0...

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https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2021/07/30/us-military-warns-china-is-building-more-nuclear-missile-silos/

Researchers at the Federation of American Scientists estimate that China has approximately 250 underground missile silos under construction after they used satellite imagery to identify a new field being built in western China.

U.S. Strategic Command tweeted a link Wednesday to a story in The New York Times on the federation’s findings, which were published this week.

“The public has discovered what we have been saying all along about the growing threat the world faces and the veil of secrecy that surrounds it,” said Strategic Command, which oversees America’s nuclear arsenal.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/china-nuke-japan-taiwan-video-ccp-channel

The Chinese Communist Party aired a video in which it warned Japan of a nuclear response and "full-scale war" if the island nation interferes in China’s handling of Taiwan.

The video, which appeared on a channel approved by the CCP, singles out Japan as the one exception to China’s policy to not use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear powers.

"We will use nuclear bombs first," the video said. "We will use nuclear bombs continuously. We will do this until Japan declares unconditional surrender for the second time."

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Huawei & co. sa pomaličky, potichúčky snaží pretlačiť ich projekt "new Internet Protocol"
https://www.engadget.com/2020-03-30-china-huawei-new-ip-proposal.html

China, Huawei and Chinese carriers want to redesign a key aspect of the internet -- and while there may be some upsides, their ideas have raised some alarm bells. The Financial Times understands that the group has proposed a new internet protocol at the ITU, New IP, that theoretically offers more efficient addressing and network management than the existing TCP/IP standard but also appears to have hooks that allow authoritarian regimes to censor and surveil their residents. Most notably, there would be a "shut up command" that would let a central part of the network cut off data going to or from an address. As you might guess, that could be handy if China wanted to silence an activist without resorting to extra tools.

There are also concerns that New IP would require authentication and authorization of not just new internet addresses, but also the humans involved and the data packets being sent. China has long called for linking real names to internet users, and this potentially links people to the very internet connection itself...

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myslim, ze vdaka internetovej pedofilii a terorizmu toto zapadne krajiny nebudu mat problem nasadzovat. mozno to rebranduju na svoju iniciativu a budu to volat inak, aby akoze ukazali cine navonok stopku, ale v praxi sa nic nezmeni.

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Foreign Policy: document of the week
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/04/czech-republic-china-prc-taiwan-letter-document-threat/

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https://www.voanews.com/science-health/coronavirus-outbreak/chinese-diplomat-accuses-us-spreading-coronavirus

In his Thursday tweets, Zhao Lijian, a spokesperson of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA), accused the U.S. of spreading the virus to the city of Wuhan in Hubei province, the epicenter of China's coronavirus outbreak.

The Chinese diplomat first posted a video clip in which Robert Redfield, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told a congressional hearing Wednesday that some deaths from coronavirus have been discovered posthumously in the U.S.

Zhao then tweeted, "the U.S. CDC director was caught red-handed. When did patient zero emerge in the U.S.? How many people had he infected? What's the name of the hospital?"

An explanation

"It's possible that the U.S. military brought the virus to Wuhan. The U.S. has to be transparent and make public its figures. The U.S. owes us an explanation," he added.

Zhao's comments echoed a rumored conspiracy, widely circulated in China, that U.S. military personnel had brought the virus to China during their participation of the 2019 Military World Games in Wuhan last October.

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Hotel Intercontinental Berlin, AE491128, konferencia oeb.global, sála Check (t.j. tá istá sála kde budem mať za pár hodín túto intervenciu.

Predo mnou stojí Dr. Wei Cu... Dr. Wei Cui is a co-founder and Chief Scientist of Squirrel AI Learning by Yixue Group, the leading AI + adaptive education innovator at the forefront of AI revolution...

Skvelá prezentačka, Matrix & cyberpunk jak ...., vzum, vzum, Squirrel AI začala emergovať pred 5 rokmi a už "vyškolila" či školí ... wat ? ... 2 milióny čínskych detí ???

Prezentácia sa mení v debatu a ja si neodpustím menšiu poznámku:

"If I understand You correctly, Squirrel AI is a paid service and as such, there exists an easy-to-trace link between the persona paying for the service and the student identifier used by Your student(s). If privacy of Your clients is a concern for You as You indicate, I would start thinking about how to break this link. Otherwise it can easily happen that someone from CP will come and ask You to pinpoint the most performant students in order to increase his/her social credit..."

Doktor sa usmial úsmevom nie nepodobným úsmevu Hackworthovho najprvspojenca.

A potom na záver debaty ešte jedno odporúčanie: "You state on Your slides that Your AI had already "defeated" human teachers in different contests...However, You are in Germany in this very moment, and the German word for education is Bildung...And Bildung is not about "defeating" and it's about something much more than just plain skill-acquisition...

It's about emotions, values, perennial ideas, relation between the Teacher and the Student, between You and I."

"If in Europe, just do not use the term 'defeated'", bolo mi z publika pritakané...

Po prednáške som potom s Mr. X pred výťahmi prehodil pár slov spôsobom ako sa v konfuciánskej tradícii sluší a patrí.

Vitaj v štvrtom leveli.

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https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/09/chinas-new-cybersecurity-program-no-place-to-hide.html

No technology that blocks access by the Ministry of Public Security is permitted. No VPN, no encryption, no private servers. If the Ministry of Public Security is required to install back doors or other message/data interception devices or systems to achieve full access, then China Telecom and Chinese based ISPs are required to comply.

This system will apply to foreign owned companies in China on the same basis as to all Chinese persons, entities or individuals. No information contained on any server located within China will be exempted from this full coverage program. No communication from or to China will be exempted.

Follow-up: https://www.chinalawblog.com/2019/10/chinas-new-cybersecurity-system-there-is-no-place-to-hide.html

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brutal, black mirror is alive
https://www.idnes.cz/technet/software/studuj-siho-posil-zemi-cina-ruda-knizka.A190327_132156_software_kuz?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=sharecm

×÷ßßß$ˇ~[☼◙ş→☻ü84ó♀ÇüŮń§►♫☺♀♂ć☺<\ˇ

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trocha sa obavam, ze europska unia prinesie postupne nieco podobne.. asi nie narazovo, ale postupne salamovou metodou.. samozrejme vsetko plne demokraticky, rovnako ako clanky 11 a 13, ktore si cela europa zelala..

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Trocha sa obávam že si viac ako trochu mimo.

Wenn es etwas im Leben gibt, dass die menschliche Seele anspricht, dann ist es Liebe und Schönheit.

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Supre prednaska o systeme z 35c3!

"The" Social Credit System

Why It's Both Better and Worse Than We can Imagine
https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9904-the_social_credit_system

Odporucam!

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http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/china-social-credit-a-model-citizen-in-a-digital-dictatorship/10200278?pfmredir=sm

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Chinese Surveillance Is Literally Getting in Workers’ Heads

Feel like your boss is a bit of a micromanager, always looking over your shoulder? Be grateful that they’re not peering into your brain.

That’s now the case for a number of workers in China, the nation competing for the global superlative of Most Dystopian.

An “emotional surveillance” system is allowing supervisors to scrutinize employees’ brainwaves for signs of distress, according to a report from the South China Morning Post (SCMP). The technology is the result of a government-backed project.

Here’s how it works. Lightweight sensors embedded in workers’ hats or helmets wirelessly transmit the wearer’s brainwave data to a computer — it probably works a bit like an electroencephalogram (EEG), as MIT Tech Review notes. Then, artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms scan the data, looking for outliers that could indicate anxiety or rage.

Some organizations use the sensors during routine work, while others embed them in virtual reality (VR) headsets to monitor workers’ emotions during training exercises.

We don’t know exactly how many workers have been subjected to this surveillance system, but the SCMP article does say the technology is being deployed “on an unprecedented scale” in China.
https://futurism.com/china-emotional-surveillance/

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Čínske technológie na sledovanie ľudí sa rozpínajú. Laboratóriom sa stáva Afrika | Technológie
TREND.sk
10-13 minutes

Čínske firmy v oblasti rozpoznávania tvárí podpisujú dohody aj s represívnymi vládami. Ich cieľom je primárne biznis, ale efekt čínskeho dohľadu v štýle Big Brother sa môže rýchlo rozšíriť do rôznych kútov sveta a viesť k diskriminácii a potláčaniu menšín.

Technológia na rozpoznávanie tvárí sa šíri v Číne extrémne rýchlo. Kamery sledujú chodcov na staniciach, identifikujú bezdomovcov na uliciach a dokonca monitorujú veriacich v štátom schválených kostoloch. Rozpoznávanie tváre sa používa namiesto overovania preukazu totožnosti a v pilotnej verzii občania dostávajú takzvaný sociálny rating.

Od súkromných firiem vláda získava dáta o tom, čo o nej ľudia hovoria, ako si plnia finančné záväzky a s kým sa priatelia. Výsledné číslo ich priradí do sociálnej skupiny. Ak je rating nízky, občan nemusí dostať hypotéku, spomalí sa mu internetové pripojenie alebo nebude môcť navštíviť luxusnejšiu reštauráciu.

Čínsky sledovací projekt s názvom Skynet začal už v roku 2005, ale nedávne pokroky v umelej inteligencii dodali snahám štátu vo sfére sledovania ďalšiu oporu. Len v Číne bolo vlani zverejnených približne 530 patentov, ktoré súvisia so sledovaním ľudí a rozpoznávaním tvári prostredníctvom videí a bezpečnostných kamier.

Ambiciózny vládny plán stojí na troch nohách: na podpore technologických a finančných gigantov ako Alibaba a Tencent (prevádzkovateľ populárneho WeChatu), na silnom partnerstve s mladými start-upmi a na starostlivo vytvorených opatreniach, ktoré dávajú prednosť národnej bezpečnosti pred akýmkoľvek súkromím smrteľníkov.

Investície v Afrike

Čína navyše v investovaní do umelej inteligencie predstihla aj Spojené štáty. Už vlani si čínska komunistická vláda vytýčila smelý cieľ, že do roku 2020 sa chce dostať v odvetví umelej inteligencie (AI) na úroveň USA a do roku 2030 sa stať na tomto poli celosvetovým lídrom. Odhaduje pritom, že tento segment bude mať hodnotu 150 miliárd dolárov.

Čína má na to skvelé predpoklady. Má zhruba štyrikrát toľko obyvateľov ako USA, značnú podporu vlády, ktorá v prípade potreby môže rýchlo presúvať finančné zdroje, a v neposlednom rade môžu lokálne firmy slobodnejšie experimentovať vďaka voľnejšiemu nastaveniu pravidiel pri vývoji nových digitálnych technológií. Lenže Čína sa nechce uspokojiť len s vlastným trhom a vo veľkom expanduje.

Magazín Foreign Policy upozorňuje, že Čína začína využívať svoje technológie v rozvojových krajinách (predovšetkým v Afrike a na Blízkom východe), ktoré sa stávajú laboratóriom na zlepšovanie algoritmov. Príkladom je telekomunikačný a technologický sektor.

Vlani sa v Afrike stala jednotkou v predaji smartfónov čínska firma Transsion Holdings a predbehla tak Samsung. Ďalšia čínska firma Hikvision, ktorá vyrába kamerové systémy, si otvorila svoju kanceláriu v Juhoafrickej republike.

V roku 2013 podpísala čínska telekomunikačná firma ZTE spoluprácu s Etiópiou. Tamojšej vláde poskytla nástroje, ako sledovať, o čom ľudia hovoria. Predstavitelia etiópskej vlády, inými slovami, získali neobmedzený prístup k metadátam od monopolného operátora Ethio Telecom.

Tieto dáta obsahujú údaje o všetkých uskutočnených hovoroch, odoslaných a prijatých SMS a o lokalizácii používateľov. Pomocou databázovej aplikácie ZSmart dodanej čínskou spoločnosťou ZTE môže ktokoľvek s dostatočným prístupom nahrávať akékoľvek hovory bežných ľudí, čo sa zneužíva proti aktivistom a „nepriateľom“ vlády.

Firma CloudWalk Technology zasa pred niekoľkými týždňami podpísala dohodu so Zimbabwe. S vládou sa má podieľať na vývoji masového programu na rozpoznávanie tvárí. Africká krajina sa často skloňuje s porušovaním ľudských práv. Od novembra minulého roka sa v krajine stal prezidentom Emmerson Mnangagwa, ktorý nastúpil po rezignácii Roberta Mugabeho, ktorý bol diktátorom dlhých 37 rokov.

E. Mnangagwa bol v jeho kabinete viceprezidentom a má za sebou rovnako temnú minulosť. Bol obvinený z tvrdých zákrokov proti kmeňu Ndebele v 80. rokoch, pri ktorých zomreli tisíce ľudí, alebo z útoku na dom svojho oponenta v parlamentných voľbách. Obavy sú opodstatnené, pretože algoritmy od čínskej firmy môžu zhoršiť postavenie a diskriminovať menšiny a kritikov v tejto africkej krajine.

Dohoda nezahŕňa len kamerové systémy. Súčasťou sú inteligentné finančné systémy, systémy zabezpečujúce bezpečnosť na letiskách, železnici a autobusových staniciach a vybudovanie národnej databázy, v ktorej bude fotografia každého občana.
Otázka etiky

Kým americké a v zásade západné krajiny sa aspoň snažia z etického hľadiska nespolupracovať s totalitnými režimami, čínske firmy, ako je CloudWalk, s tým morálne problémy nemajú.

„Obávame sa dohody, keďže CloudWalk poskytuje technológie na rozpoznávanie tváre čínskej polícií,“ povedala Maya Wang, ktorá pôsobí v ľudskoprávnej organizácii Human Rights Watch. Tvrdí, že v Číne je technológia zneužívaná na rozsiahle sledovanie, ktoré je zamerané na konkrétne sociálne skupiny, ako sú napríklad etnické menšiny a tí, ktorí predstavujú politickú hrozbu pre vládu.

V Zimbabwe je sloboda prejavu dlhodobo obmedzovaná a monitorovaná rôznymi spôsobmi. V roku 2015 R. Mugabe prijal od iránskej vlády ako dar počítačový softvér, ktorý sa používa na odpočúvanie telefonických rozhovorov. V roku 2016 vychvaľoval Čínu a považoval ju za vzor, pretože úspešne reguluje sociálne médiá, čo by chceli v Zimbabwe napodobniť. Nový prezident má podobné cítenie.

V Číne stačí poslať cez komunikačnú platformu WeChat nesprávne zvolené slová a môžete skončiť vo väzení. To sa do istej miery deje (vďaka prijatému zákonu o kybernetickej bezpečnosti minulý rok) aj v Zimbabwe – stačí šíriť online „klamstvá“. Čo sa pod slovíčkom klamstvo ukrýva, nevedno.

Technológia od CloudWalku poskytne vláde ešte väčšie právomoci nad občanmi. Hovorca spoločnosti Fu Xiaolong tvrdí, že firma poskytuje len technológiu, ale to, ako budú dáta nakoniec použité, je zodpovednosť danej vlády. Ich technológiu prirovnal k americkým zbraniam – Američania tiež predávajú zbrane, ale už si príliš nelámu hlavu nad tým, kde nakoniec zbrane skončia a či zabijú nevinných ľudí.

Pre čínsku firmu je dohoda zlatou baňou aj z iného dôvodu – väčším objemom dát (aj inými, ako sú Číňania) dokáže vylepšiť vlastný algoritmus. Nedávna štúdia Media Lab od univerzity MIT testovala chybovosť troch hlavných poskytovateľov softvéru na rozpoznávanie tvári: od Microsoftu, IBM a čínskej firmy Megvii.

Štúdia zistila, že pri pokuse identifikovať pohlavie osoby z obrázka bola miera chybovosti u mužov - belochov menej ako jedno percento, zatiaľ čo u žien s tmavšou pleťou to bolo až 35 percent. Presnosť AI závisí od objemu a kvality dát, ktorými sú kŕmené. Na celom svete je rozpoznávanie tvárí vyvíjané prevažne na vzorkách mužských tvári so svetlejšou pokožkou. Dáta zo Zimbabwe tak môžu poskytnúť rôznorodosť z hľadiska rasy a farby pokožky.

Model z Číny nie je ľahké napodobniť

Krajiny, ktoré získali čínsku technológiu, nemôžu automaticky napodobňovať rozsah dohľadu nad občanmi ako v Číne. Dôvod je prozaický. Jeden algoritmus je len časťou obrovskej skladačky. Na dosiahnutie toho, aby dohľad nad smrteľníkmi fungoval podobne ako v Číne, je potrebné zaviesť napríklad také maličkosti ako systém národných identifikačných kariet a systém registrácie skutočných mien.

V Číne sledovací systém zašiel až do takých detailov, že sa na veľkých billboardoch zobrazujú tváre nepozorných chodcov, ale aj vodičov, ktorí jazdia po ceste rýchlo. Okrem nich sa na „tabuliach hanby“ objavujú mená a tváre ľudí, ktorí nesplácajú svoje dlhy. Efekt je skôr psychologický – tvár dlžníka alebo nezodpovedného vodiča vidia aj jeho susedia alebo kolegovia.

Odhaduje sa, že Čína má k dispozícii 200 miliónov kamier na sledovanie, čo je štyrikrát viac ako v Spojených štátoch. O dva roky ich bude mať 300 miliónov.

Dopĺňajú ich desiatky iných systémov, s ktorými vláda sleduje surfovanie ľudí na internete a ich komunikáciu s inými ľuďmi, hotelové pobyty, vlakové a letecké výlety, a dokonca aj cestovanie autom na niektorých miestach. Snímače rozpoznávania tváre chránia vstupy do niektorých obytných komplexov.

Denník New York Times v reportáži upozorňuje, že takéto systémy nie sú plne automatizované, ale stále si vyžadujú obrovské množstvo analytikov, ktorí údaje z AI spracovávajú a hodnotia.

Na západe krajiny bol zriadený špeciálny softvér na hromadný dohľad na sledovanie členov ujgurskej moslimskej menšiny a mapovanie ich vzťahov s priateľmi a rodinou. „Je to potenciálne úplne nový spôsob, ako vláda riadi hospodárstvo a spoločnosť,“ povedal pre denník Martin Chorzempa z Peterson Institute for International Economics. Cieľom je takzvané algoritmické riadenie.

Čína nie je jedinou krajinou, ktorá predáva sledovacie technológie pochybným vládam. V správe spoločnosti Security for Sale sa uvádzajú aj európske firmy Gamma Group International zo Spojeného kráľovstva či HackingTeam z Talianska.

Dokumenty odhaľujú, že spolupracujú s krajinami ako Sudán, Turecko, Egypt, Etiópia, Rusko či Spojené arabské emiráty. Európske krajiny dali v priebehu troch rokov 317 povolení na export a len 14 odmietli. Až tretina vývozu smerovala do krajín, ktoré sú organizáciou Freedom House označované ako neslobodné.

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http://uk.businessinsider.com/china-emotional-surveillance-technology-2018-4

"They thought we could read their mind. This caused some discomfort and resistance in the beginning," Jin Jia, a professor of brain science at Ningbo University told the Post.

"After a while they got used to the device... They wore it all day at work."

Jin also said that employees' brainwaves can be enough for managers to send them home.

"When the system issues a warning, the manager asks the worker to take a day off or move to a less critical post. Some jobs require high concentration. There is no room for a mistake."

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