[calvertdw]

This makes me shudder. Companies with powerful AI and enough data could control the population in ways indiscernible to an individual. By organizing goods in stores and placing the right ads at the right time it could be possible to lead users on a treasure hunt to a political or economic opinion.

[ryanwaggoner]

How do you know you're not in the vanguard of that attack on humanity? How do you know the comment you just posted isn't propaganda in service of your puppetmaster. Perhaps you're bringing about that which you fear, powerless in the grip of an omnipotent AI possessed by a faceless bureaucracy somewhere.