Whitney Webb (mintpressnews.com), Jimmy Dore (jimmydorecomedy.com); Wisdom Quarterly
Techno-Tyranny: How US national security state is using coronavirus to fulfill Orwellian vision
Whitney Webb, author of The Last American Vagabond (lewrockwell.com, April 23, 2020)
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| Is that Mark Z, Bezos, Musk? |
Last year, a government commission called for the US to adopt an AI (artificial intelligence)-driven mass surveillance system far beyond that used in any other country in order to ensure American hegemony in AI.
Now many of the “obstacles” they had cited as preventing its implementation are rapidly being removed under the guise of combating the coronavirus crisis.
Last year a U.S. government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence (AI) can “address the national security and defense needs of the United States” discussed in detail the “structural” changes that the American economy and society must undergo.
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| The plans are revealed by a FOIA request. |
It must undergo these in order to ensure a technological advantage over China, according to a recent document acquired through a FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) request.
This document suggests that the U.S. follow China’s lead and even surpass the Chinese in many aspects related to AI-driven technologies, particularly their use of mass surveillance.
This perspective clearly clashes with the public rhetoric of prominent U.S. government officials and politicians on China, who have labeled the Chinese government’s technology investments and export of its surveillance systems and other technologies as a major “threat” to Americans’ “way of life.”
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| Facial recognition goes beyond surveillance. |
In addition, many of the steps for the implementation of such a program in the U.S., as laid out in this newly available document, are currently being promoted and implemented as part of the government’s response to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis.
This likely due to the fact that many members of this same body have considerable overlap with the task forces and advisors currently guiding the government’s plans to “re-open the economy” and efforts to use technology to respond to the current crisis.
The FOIA document, obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), was produced by a little-known U.S. government organization called the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI).
It was created by the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and its official purpose is “to consider the methods and means necessary to advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States.”
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| Facebook, like Google, is part of the spying. |
The NSCAI is a key part of the government’s response to what is often referred to as the coming “fourth industrial revolution,” which has been described as “a revolution characterized by discontinuous technological development in areas like artificial intelligence (AI), big data, fifth-generation telecommunications networking (5G), nanotechnology and biotechnology, robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and quantum computing.”
However, their main focus is ensuring that “the United States… maintain a technological advantage in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other associated technologies related to national security and defense.”
Vice-Chair of NSCAI Robert Work, former deputy secretary of defense and senior fellow at the hawkish [pro-war] Center for a New American Security (CNAS), described the commission’s purpose as determining:
[How] “the U.S. national security apparatus should approach artificial intelligence, including a focus on how the government can work with industry to compete with China’s ‘civil-military fusion’ concept.” More
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