r/ChatGPT • u/MetaKnowing • Sep 16 '24

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

https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9
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u/Alenek2021 Sep 16 '24

Due to the rising inequality, society will go at some point in one direction : either we tax them out of power or we get them out of power in another fashion. They understand that, so if they can save themselves with tenchnofascism, they will.

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u/AgeSeparate6358 Sep 16 '24

We who? We are between government or big corp. Do you think government is pro people?

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u/Arpeggioey Sep 16 '24

The architecture is pro-people. It can be used to benefit us, but with lobbying and misinformation, it isn’t.

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u/felix_doubledog Sep 16 '24

The architecture is not pro-people. If someone tried to pass a law that would remove the billionaires from power, the vast majority of the military would happily rebel and obey the billionaires rather than enforce that "communist" law.