Silicon Valley Fuses With the State: Eric Schmidt, AI Arms Race, and Smart Cities

• 55:38Silicon Valley and the state have fused together, creating a dangerous situation for the country's future.
• 56:02Google originally received CIA funding through In-Q-Tel, establishing early connections between tech companies and government.
• 56:24Microsoft, Google, and Palantir are major US government contractors with direct conflicts of interest with the state.
• 56:44Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, is running the Pentagon's modernization effort and potentially heading a new industry task force under Biden.
• 57:09Schmidt's vision for America involves an automated economy where very few people have jobs and most work is done by AI or robots.
• 57:27An AI arms race between the US and China is driving the push to extract more data per citizen than China does.
• 57:52Smart cities use sensors throughout infrastructure to constantly collect data, feeding into AI algorithms to create what's called the fourth industrial revolution.
• 59:37Carbine 911, a company that Jeffrey Epstein invested in, plans to replace the 911 system with automated emergency response.
• 1:00:31Carbine 911's predictive policing component analyzes phone data to predict whether someone will be a future victim, perpetrator, or near a crime.
• 1:01:14Machine learning algorithms used in these systems have been shown to have extreme racial bias in facial recognition and predictive policing.
• 1:02:00Amazon's Alexa is preparing people for a future of smart products throughout the home that constantly gather data.
• 1:02:36Amazon released a new wearable that creates 3D body models and gauges emotions throughout the day while recording everything users and nearby people say.

Silicon Valleysmart citiesEric SchmidtGoogleCarbine 911Artificial IntelligenceJeff BezosAmazonMicrosoftDemocratic National Committeefacial recognitionPalantirJeffrey Epstein