Should a cynical and irresponsible Silicon Valley be allowed to remain in charge of virtually all…

Automation and robotisation are becoming more prominent in the media, although the uninitiated might be forgiven for still being in the dark about them. Machine learning is happening right now. Artificial intelligence and machine learning applied to massive amounts of data are being harnessed to automate more and more of the things that, hitherto, we have had to do manually. Right now most of this data is centralized and in the hands of a few key players in Silicon Valley. And this centralization of data, the fuel of machine learning, has also attracted an astounding number of the world's leading machine learning researchers -- the industry's true superstars -- who, in recent years, have been recruited from universities by companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft.