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.
Technocrats have darkened hearts just like everyone else, but they soon discovered how to use the mantra of 'science' to trick and deceive. In similar fashion of the 1970s Chiffon Margarine ad, "It's not nice to fool mother nature", Technocrats follow with "97% of scientists agree...".
Technocrat engineers just won't let surveillance drop, no matter how much resistance is applied. Sneaking in license plate readers to speed signs is deceptive and unconstitutional. While the claim is always made that "we won't use the data for other purposes", everyone knows that is impossible; once data exists anywhere, Technocrat data scientists harvest it without reservation.
Parents are protesting less than they should biometric identification for their children will be absolute before they even graduate from high-school. Technocrats generally steam-roller over ethical and Constitutional concerns, pleading efficiency and convenience.
Jobs of America's 10 million construction workers are in serious jeopardy to be replaced by robots. What's the point? Technocrats invent because they can, not because it is wise to do so. Will humanity de humanized if it is cared for exclusively by machines?
Technocrats are running amok in New Zealand. Your smartphones and laptops are now deemed searchable by law and refusal to hand over passwords on demand will cost you $5,000 and seizure of your devices for forensic analysis. A demand can be made for no particular reason or suspicion. Welcome to the Fourth Reich.
Because man is imperfect, it follows that anything man creates is imperfect as well, including the computer programs that are intended to run everything in our lives. Furthermore, the law of Entropy suggests that anything man creates will be more imperfect than the creator. Trusting our lives and fortunes to secret algorithms is foolish and dangerous.