BLOG POST #10 – LIVING IN THE AGE OF AI
While I watched In the Age of AI, I couldn't
help but feel fear as to how much personal information is available to
potentially millions of people or organizations. However, I found out years ago
that Google, Facebook, and other social media websites along with other search
engines track what you are searching, reading or learning about on those sites.
What few people realize is that your
mouse is also being tracking while you’re looking at a page you're on. It is something to take note of when you are
on Google. For example, if you just
happen to move your mouse it will show you something that you have recently
looked at from another website or an item that you may have thought about
buying from another website, on the sidebar of the page you may be on. As it was explained, “we thought we were
learning from the Google, however, Google is learning about us”. Sadly, we have given our permission for
Google to do so.
Unfortunately, we have let the internet into our homes
so we can be more productive, more educated, and be better able to keep up with
our friends and families that at one time we did not keep up with at all. The internet
has allowed us to have that communication more readily available to us.
What I found to be even more concerning is how
powerful China has become and has been.
This documentary is from 3 plus years ago, and the amount of countries
that China has invested in globally is very disconcerting. China is expanding its footprint globally,
driven in part by Beijing’s “Going Out”
strategy and the Belt and
Road Initiative, both of which encourage investment in foreign markets. Since 2019, the plan has touched over 138
countries with a combined Gross Domestic Product of $29 trillion and some 4.6
billion people. As of March, it is 147
countries out of 195. That is a very
sobering number.
China has become more formidable than I think our
country could ever imagine. What is more
concerning is how powerful they may already be.
They are much more tech savvy than the rest of the world and their
technology is watching their own population with a myriad of technologies which
can be easily be infiltrated into the countries that they are marketing with. I don't know how you feel, but I am left to feel very uncomfortable.