LIVING IN THE AGE OF AI - BLOG #10

 

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.