[quinnjh]

>hopefully a much better legal system around data privacy and surveillance If we avoid wireheading and obvious black mirror pits

Curious what you see as a possible incentive for this to play out? Personally stopped watching black mirror a few years ago, i dont know how much focusing the public psyche on a fantastical version of the horrors that are playing out helps us imagine or enable a better future. These days it almost feels like a keeper of the gate to STEM. If black mirror freaks you out you probably aren't going to compete in the r&d space.

[robbedpeter]

The fall of Google and Facebook, Clearview AI and their ilk creeping in, like IRS facial recognition, and gradual adoption of sane privacy laws at the local and state levels. Boomers dying out and generation X on up will hopefully increase the number of technologically competent individuals in congress, too.

Right now, I see Google and Facebook as the only relevant fingers in the dykes. There are clear and grotesque violations of privacy happening that we simply don't have a proper framework for, and these companies are ruthlessly fighting to keep the profit flowing, despite the social costs.

I hope we can collectively get it right within 20 years, but access to the literal inner workings of a mind is a pretty simple example of private data everyone will want to be protected. Maybe. Hopefully.