A tub-thumping, if slightly confused, account of the threat posed by AI and big tech
– that reflect on the encroachment of technology into our lives. They point out that tech makers have designed platforms and devices that steal our attention, distract us from our higher goals and divide us into ideological echo chambers. Big-tech business models depend on surveilling us and converting our private experiences into data that they use to predict or manipulate our behaviour. This is what Mason calls the “nightmare of the present”.
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