Thoughts and reflections around our Artificial Intelligence directed Brave New World?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has gradually and almost unnoticeably taken control of every aspect of human experience.

The software developed to unveil the Internet of Things (IoT) has, little by little, permeated every possible dimension of every activity and topic. Its omniscient and capable to evaluate from how risky your driving is to how often you use the toilet during the day, among many other things.

AI software has reached astonishing automation levels that allow enterprises, governments, and other doubtful organizations to determine, with very high confidence levels how much you do like coffee, how prone your partner is to abandon you or if your pregnancy is going to end well.

Not only that, AI algorithms have developed the capacity to dynamically gather and integrate all these parts of information into a digital model of yourself that interacts on every second basis with your real you. At the same time granting third parties unprecedent power over your behavior and other people’s and institutions behavior. We all interact based on that never-ending feedback loop.

All these has happened with our passive, lazy and ignorant approval during the fist stages and must recently without your knowledge or consensus.

Their objectives differ across dimensions of your persona and impact general jurisdictions and spaces that provide certain and extremely limited players to generate, as well, a digital model of the world.

With all these in mind, several questions arise:

To what extent do these mechanisms deliberately shape people’s identities?

What is the size of the space that they have left to free will, free association, free speech, and intellectual independence?

How much power do these mechanisms grant to individuals and groups, who have access to directly manipulate, design, and calibrate them?

Who is making sure these people and groups are not getting rogue?

How are these artifacts changing the way in which we love, fuck, buy, travel, eat, exchange, sleep, drink, work and value?

To what extent do these AI algorithms have unlawfully changed the actual provision, access and management of security, health, justice, and income?

What is the paradigm that they use to administer rewards and punishments across actors? How fair and ethical the outcomes are?

How are unique, extreme, or out of the box world views and behaviors being treated and valued?

How do these algorithms impact natural and evolutionary systems across time and space?

Are we sure we are going to be able to survive this frantic and mostly unsupervised and disconnected organic new era of multiple node semi-central planning?

And must importantly, do we really want or need this?