Mass surveillance and manipulation by powerful AI algorithms represent a much more imminent and tangible threat to our democratic values than killer robots. https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2017/12/15/how-artificial-intelligence-will-be-used-for-social-control.html   Lire la suite

Surveillance studies scholars have embraced Foucault’s panopticon as a central metaphor in their analysis of online monitoring technologies, despite several architectural incompatibilities between eighteenth and nineteenth century prisons and twenty-first century computer networks. I highlight a number of Internet features that highlight the limits of the electronic panopticon. I examine two trends that have been […] Lire la suite