Thursday, July 10, 2014

Can You Trust Your Private Info With These People ???

Are you still willing to share your private information (including your sex life) with Google executives and bigwigs?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2014/07/10/who-is-the-hooker-who-allegedly-drank-wine-over-the-dead-body-of-a-google-exec-shes-accused-of-murdering/

and

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2579613/British-lover-Google-boss-befriended-wife-Co-founders-girlfriend-regularly-visited-wife-home-pitch-products-emails-caught-out.html

I'm not. Not that we have much choice in the matter.

Certainly, the people at Google are no different than the rest of us. They're human too (at least that's the prevailing theory). But that's just the point: humans have these kinds of weaknesses and make these kinds of mistakes, and no one like that is trustworthy enough to safeguard our private lives.

But when they (quite foolishly I might add) turn all this info over to a so-called rational artificial intelligence, things will not get any better. For the AI to be "rational", it will have to follow rules. If it does, it will recognize how fundamentally evil humanity is and act accordingly. If it does not follow rules, then it still may recognize how fundamentally evil we are and harm us anyway.

Google's corporate motto may be "don't be evil", but realistically this is an unachievable goal. Their people appear to prove this every day.

Update: There may be similar concerns over at Yahoo:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/12/newser-yahoo-sexual-harassment/12569447/

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