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Oracle Founder Larry Ellison Imagines a Dystopian Future of Constant AI-Powered Surveillance to Enforce \u201cBest Behavior\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Larry Ellison, co-founder, chairman of the board, and chief technical officer of Oracle, has\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0where he sees the world going in one particular aspect \u2013 continuous, real-time control of people.<\/p>\n

It is a dark place of \u201cAI\u201d (machine learning, ML) mass surveillance, which Ellison wants to make sure is served by his company by way of providing the fundamental infrastructure. It isn\u2019t irrelevant to this story that Oracle\u2019s portfolio also includes multi-decade contacts with the US government.<\/p>\n

Oracle is not often mentioned when Big Tech is talked about, but it is one of the biggest in the industry. The reason for staying out of the limelight is that, unlike its peers with big stakes in the social media space, Oracle\u2019s business is database software and cloud computing.<\/p>\n

This is the reason Ellison sees the opportunity to place his company, already involved in building AI models, at the center of producing the tools to make this nightmarish scenario of real-time ML-powered surveillance a reality.<\/p>\n

Ellison spoke during the Oracle financial analyst gathering to suggest that the company\u2019s databases will become indispensable for the AI infrastructure, and that proof for that is in companies like X and Microsoft having already picked Oracle to provide this service.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaximizing AI\u2019s public security capabilities\u201d is what\u2019s on Ellison\u2019s mind, and he decided to sell this by giving police accountability as an example.<\/p>\n

The system would prevent police abuse, he said \u2013 but the way \u201cAI\u201d combined with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure arrives there is perplexing, to say the least. It involves police body cameras that are always recording (including in bathrooms, and during meals), always transmitting back to Oracle \u2013 and with no option to stop this feed.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery police officer is going to be supervised at all times\u201d \u2013 that\u2019s another way of putting it, and Ellison did.<\/p>\n

But who would build such an expensive and elaborate surveillance system just to use it in law enforcement? Not Ellison.<\/p>\n

The cops will be on their best behavior, but so will (the rest) of the citizens, he promised. \u201cCitizens will be on their best behavior because we\u2019re constantly recording and reporting,\u201d Ellison added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oracle Founder Larry Ellison Imagines a Dystopian Future of Constant AI-Powered Surveillance to Enforce \u201cBest Behavior\u201d Larry Ellison, co-founder, chairman of the board, and chief technical officer of Oracle, has\u00a0revealed\u00a0where he sees the world going in one particular aspect \u2013 continuous, real-time control of people. It is a dark place of \u201cAI\u201d (machine learning, ML) … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scratch-a-lib-find-a-tyrant","category-they-made-a-movie-about-this"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104484,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104483\/revisions\/104484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}