Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'

Keep in mind that Larry Ellison is fundamentally incapable of caring whether or not "citizens will be on their best behavior." The only reason he would say a thing such as this is because he sees an opportunity to make money from such a system.

Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don't anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and it'll chop it off, the end. You don't think 'oh, the lawnmower hates me' -- lawnmower doesn't give a shit about you, lawnmower can't hate you. Don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don't fall into that trap about Oracle.

• Brian Cantrill (https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc?t=33m1s)

Yeah, that would make any kind of political speech practically impossible. Activism? Nope, out of the question. Creative artistic expression? Better watch out for the thought police.

We don’t need “best behavior,” that would be so incredibly boring.

His out of touch suggestion is completely incompatible with democracy.

I vote we test it on Billionaires first. Especially their financial activities.

I'm trying to think of which robot dystopia/apocalypse this most closely resembles.

I agree wholeheartedly Larry so let's start with monitoring the sex dungeon where you keep the abducted kids locked up, you fucking bootlicking Orwellian psychopath.

I take comfort in the fact that Oracle hasn't been able to release new products. They're basically a legal team wrapped around their existing software.

That said, fuck this guy.

Never liked this guy. And Oracle DB has always kinda sucked.

The post above this one in my feed was from the onion: Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Great Potential In AI

Guillotine

Maybe a vast human being network can ensure billionaires stop existing. Let's do that one instead.

This is the kind of shit Amazon drivers already have to put up with. Remember hearing about how their singing can alarm the AI driver facing camera watchdog? If they're not willing to go on strike to get rid of surveillance in the work place then it's all too likely the average citizen won't do anything about it either.

If those are your views on privacy, mister, then let's start by you giving everyone access to your personal messages, unedited or unrestricted.

Fuck this fascist! We need to eat them ASAP. Or just bury the useless flesh. Either way, they shouldn’t come back from this…

Dude. You have way more than enough money. Go enjoy some real life, doing whatever it is soulless husks enjoy doing. Leave the rest of us alone.

1984 was not meant to be an instruction manual you twat

I hope Larry Ellison, trips and knocks out his front teeth.

Who even is this?

That guy is a raging piece of shit.

Isn't this basically what china is right now? Where's all the tankie that would wanna defend him?

If this runs on Oracle we're all gonna be just fine. It's one of the slowest, clunkiest products ever made.

We need a catchy name for it… maybe Older Male Sibling?

This person is a danger.

Old dirt bag techno fascist.

“The AI has long since exterminated black people, bars, cumin, and parks, yet it continues to recommend that we arrest anyone who purchases flavor aid and chicken. Barbecues, as we knew them, are as dead as the root of its prejudice against them. On the bright side, white people have never been more free to do cocaine, the economy booster™”

Relying on AI to provide a naughty list is a horrific idea.

This guy read Foucault's discussion about the panopticon and took it as instructions. Ugh.

It's all fun and games until said system is used against you either by hackers, insider with mallicious intent or the goverment.
Albeit said A.I systems could also be used to get rid of billionares by simply exposing tax loopholes, tracking illegal transactions and by finding answers from any leaked data which will be more plentiful when such systems gets in to place.

We literally need to start turning all billionaires into compost.

He even looks like a doos.

Facebook proved that people are just as shitty when their identity is voluntarily public.

We need a virus that only attacks and kills billionaires.

NGL I did a double take tryna figure out why they used a picture of Tim Allen for that headline.

Yeah! Great! Let's start by surveil all those rich guys and their behavior. For ... let's say ... the next decade.

You keep giving us reason to eat you.

God, will someone just punch him already?

I imagine everyone said this about video cameras, turns out crime still happens. AI is only as good as the programmers who designed it.

Now, if the AI achieves self-awareness. Let's all hope the AI comes to the conclusion that billionaires are the true root of all evil.

Larry Ellison can suck my dick.

Can't wait for my security-minded, feudal overlords

Our ruling parties have seen over the course of the last 23 years that Americans are accepting of living under constant surveillance, so as dystopian as this is, Ellison's not proposing anything that is particularly outlandish. If you have any cash squared away, it might even be a good idea to research which companies are trying to get these government contracts and invest.

He really needs to do something else with his facial hair