(site is German, but the speech itself is English.)
machines that have the power and the discretion to take human lives are politically unacceptable, are morally repugnant, and should be banned by international law.
They are selling the derivatives of the toxic surveillance business model as the product of scientific innovation.
And they are working to convince us that probabilistic systems that recognize statistical patterns in massive amounts of data are objective, intelligent, and sophisticated tools capable of nearly any function imaginable. Certainly more capable than we, mere mortals. And thus we should step aside and trust our business to them.
