Steve O'Brien - Staying Safe in the Surveillance Economy %

Peggy Smedley: …I really think people need to understand when we talk about AI (artificial intelligence), it's evolving into a lot of different things. I've talked about big brother and we think about how we've evolved from that. AI is becoming that in a lot of different ways… Do you believe that we've ended up in this surveillance economy that we're describing? Steve O'Brien: So, generally I agree that we're in a surveillance economy. What we tend to mean by surveillance economy is that our data that we produce online has been commodified and produces value. And oftentimes we exchange the value of that data for free services or things that we like, like Gmail. I personally love the photos that Facebook resurfaces for me every year of my family as they grow up. Smedley: So, then how did we get there? I mean, the way that we got there is because we're getting these new services and we love that. But at the same time when we advance and we get these things, we also get the downsides. We get that baby monitor that gets hacked and that just gets so darn creepy.