Debates on privacy continue between the business tech titans and the policy/lawmakers. Some tech titans, like billionaire Elon Musk, warn against the ensuing crisis of AI/ML – but they are in the minority. Too much good can be created and above all too much money can be made. There is a belief that the country that achieves more in AI/ML will dominate the world’s economy. So, it’s not a question of if but when freedom and privacy may be sacrificed on the road to “bigger, better and faster.”Are we headed for a privacy disaster with AI/ML? AI/ML needs massive amounts of your data to effectively analyze your behavior. The concern is that AI/ML becomes so precise in its ability to predict your actions that an AI/ML machine will think and act along a path predicting your future actions. There is no privacy with AI/ML due to its ability to predict an infinite number of steps ahead of you based on your predetermined actions; mimicking your future behavior, along each step’s path. Although it’s 2019, George Orwell in his book 1984 (published in 1949), warned of the possible risks that could lead to repressive and regimented actions. Could the achievements in the 4th Industrial Revolution end in disaster with the machines dominating humans? Well, it might be the few tyrannical humans who control the machines who control the rest of us.To read this article in full, please click here Read More @CIO