[oldandtired]

Having spent a long time doing data analysis, now called data mining, I recognise that there will be lots of benefit to those doing it but not for those whose information is being used.

AI won't fly. But we will build tools that will fool people into thinking it exists. The problem that exists is that the correlations being made are as shaky as the lack of foundations in the veracity of the data being mined.

Dystopian future is already here and has been for decades. We are only just seeing it now. Recklessness and a lack of understanding the past will ensure that the majority of people will simply fall into place. Fear is the marketing game now, by corporations and governments and others.

Ruling the world is a catch-cry for those who, in the main, only care for themselves and their own.