I think this is a reasonable opportunity to quote from the classic Deus Ex (2000), where the player is talking to a prototype AI system which was used a kind of demo to world leaders. [0]
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MORPHEUS: "Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles
as I tell them who they are."
JC DENTON: "Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance."
MORPHEUS: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can
implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."
JC DENTON: "Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience,
but not reverence."
MORPHEUS: "God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment.
Other sentiments toward them were secondary."
JC DENTON: "No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera."
MORPHEUS: "The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the
observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you
have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.
JC DENTON: "You underestimate humankind's love of freedom."
MORPHEUS: "The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is
impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands."
I think this is a reasonable opportunity to quote from the classic Deus Ex (2000), where the player is talking to a prototype AI system which was used a kind of demo to world leaders. [0]
_________________
MORPHEUS: "Human beings feel pleasure when they are watched. I have recorded their smiles as I tell them who they are."
JC DENTON: "Some people just don't understand the dangers of indiscriminate surveillance."
MORPHEUS: "The need to be observed and understood was once satisfied by God. Now we can implement the same functionality with data-mining algorithms."
JC DENTON: "Electronic surveillance hardly inspired reverence. Perhaps fear and obedience, but not reverence."
MORPHEUS: "God and the gods were apparitions of observation, judgment, and punishment. Other sentiments toward them were secondary."
JC DENTON: "No one will ever worship a software entity peering at them through a camera."
MORPHEUS: "The human organism always worships. First it was the gods, then it was fame (the observation and judgment of others), next it will be the self-aware systems you have built to realize truly omnipresent observation and judgment.
JC DENTON: "You underestimate humankind's love of freedom."
MORPHEUS: "The individual desires judgment. Without that desire, the cohesion of groups is impossible, and so is civilization. The human being created civilization not because of a willingness but because of a need to be assimilated into higher orders of structure and meaning. God was a dream of good government. You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands."
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b-bijO3uEw