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Privacy and equity.

Privacy is obvious.

AI is going to to be equivalent to all computing in the future. Imagine if only IBM, Apple and Microsoft ever built computers, and all anyone else ever had in the 1990s were terminals to the mainframe, forever.



I am all for the privacy angle and while I think there’s certainly a group of us, myself included, who care deeply about it I don’t think most people or enterprises will. I think most of those will go for the easy button and then wring their hands about privacy and security as they have always done while continuing to let the big companies do pretty much whatever they want. I would be so happy to be wrong but aren’t we already seeing it? Middle of the night price changes, leaks of data, private things that turned out to not be…and yet!


I wring my hands twice a week about internet service providers; Comcast and Starlink. And I live in a nominally well serviced metropolitan area.


> AI is going to to be equivalent to all computing in the future.

Thanks, but I prefer my computing to be deterministic if at all possible.


Did you mean to type equality? As in, "everyone on equal footing"? Otherwise, I'm not sure how to parse your statement.




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