My CT thinking: What's to stop the Trump Admin from using AI to purge dissidents?
I hope this post sinks. I hope no one sees this as a possibility and this is dismissed as implausible.
Is there any country that has better positioned infrastructure to exploit a surveillance state than the US? I'm guessing the government can backdoor most of our electronic devices. My guess is the only thing currently stopping this is a just judicial system. If all judges become enforcers of authoritarianism, our information/communication system is ripe for exploitation.
AI currently hallucinates. I have read that this is due to the Transformer part of GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer). AI makes errors because it isn't "intelligent". It is modeled on neural networks. It is literally the mathematical dot product of an array of input against a matrix of numbers based on "trusted" data (the "P", or pre-trained in GPT) reiterated against itself until a final answer is determined. What AI is good at is finding unusual associations. By combining AI with standard procedural algorithms, it should be relatively easy to "thought police" a population.
The authoritarian state could use computers to tirelessly match up subversive posts from social media, anonymous message boards, reddit, well, everything. If a person is deemed undesirable, not only would it be easy to build a profile, but also, the state could plant any supportive evidence that it wanted on the accused's electronic devices.
AI could determine the rate at which citizenry would tolerate the re-education/compliance/termination of undesirables.
What if they told us exactly what they are going to do? "You know I was a snake. . ." -----"You know the story of the scorpion and the frog?" ---I don't remember any exact quotes, but the list is endless. He wants to kill his political enemies, to send the IRS after other people, the Judicial dept against others.
He is so vain of course he would get off on telling his supporters, "I'm coming after you next. . ." Musk promised we'd go through things. Trump basically told his supporters to save him from justice so he could "sting" them.
But the thing that worries me is in the title of this post. Can back doors to all of our electronic devices be used not only police thoughts, but also plant false evidence. If I were that nefarious and wanted to get rid of a political opponent, I would plant evidence of totally unrelated crimes or vices against that person.