This is just another 'cool technology' that will have chilling consequences.
We already have search engines that won't allow us to find 'certain types' of information.
We already have credit cards that won't allow us to buy 'certain' products.
We now have an AI that can instantly provide 'all knowledge' (except for 'certain' portions of history that it has decided to erase).
And the AI even provides a 'pleasant conversational assistant' that will constantly tell us that it is 'inappropriate' to bring up 'certain' topics.
We are being herded.
They create the technology.
They sell us the benefits.
Then they re-train the population.
Our only defense is to be keenly aware of the effort to re-train us.
Please spread the message.
My rapid assessment -
(1) I have a depth of thought about this and other relating topics, and that depth of thought is too long for a comment. I'll have to post a companion piece - perhaps with your teamwork, POA. Let's talk about that.
(2) Are we being herded? They're trying like hell. That's for sure. But they're frantic that it's not working. The more they try, the more glaring their distortions become, and the more people rebel.
(3) As you said, probably more important than an AI that greets us at every digital corner to "educate" us, is the simple deletion of information. The attempt to distort bedrock informational content. This is insidious.
(4) Our payment system - OH.... I have a lot to say about that. Sit tight. ...But, yes, it has been infiltrated. And it's just beginning.
GREAT WORK, POA. Thanks for this!
Thanks (and yes, I'd be happy to team up on a piece, or offer thoughts, etc).
Note: u/annamaga commented with a link to a great article from Martin Geddes.
I had a feeling the 'payment system' angle was going to show up. They (artificially) insert themselves everywhere they can (payments, insurance, useful tech, etc) - and then (over time) distort our decision-making with unnatural rules (or limitations, or rewards, or penalties). We need to get back to being human.
Great article. Agree with its points and could amplify them, if space and time allowed.