Lee is one of the fathers of AI and is equally at home in China or the U.S. His perception of the future of AI and AI race between China and the U.S. is essential to understand. You may not like what you hear, but it is the reality living in the Technocrat mind: Listen to his TED Talk.
After one year under the thumb of Amazon, Whole Foods employees cry out that "They want us to be robots." As Amazon's technocrat-driven warehouse warehouse philosophy is being imposed on Whole Foods: micromanagement and intense pressure to perform.
Some lawmakers are getting wise to Big Tech's demands for self-regulation of privacy issues, and are putting citizens first. Since Technocrats compulsively hoard data, they will fight against any restrictions on data collection. This will be a real test for Technocracy vs. Constitutional Republic.
"Your papers, please." Thus far, TSA is failing miserably on implementing biometric identification systems at U.S. airports. While there is no doubt that some bad actors will be caught with a perfect system, it is a gross violation of the Constitution to collect data on every citizen or traveller.