When I first started reading it, my mind completely forgot the word “cyber” within the title and shifted to an imaginary future. This text seems to me fascinating especially in today’s context even though the text was written in 1996. Borrow through his declaration expresses his vision on the cyberworld different from the ordinary world where people are not obliged to elect a government. His text is mostly a response to the passage of the Telecommunications Reform Act in the United States which reflects a pivotal moment in the evolving relationship between the digital and physical worlds. Even though this text challenges legal concepts, nowadays, it still helps us to challenge moral concepts of regulation and dominance over this sphere.
The session in class when Mr. Depaz introduced Moore's law, really supprised me in a way that question myself on the porgress of technology nowadays. And Sam Altman recent fire from Open Ai also questioned myself on who, would lead the tech industry and who would be held accountable. Now in this text of Zeynep Tefekci, as he would say, this isn't just about who is at the helm of these companies, but also how society at large engages with and governs the use of powerful technological tools. Also He poses question regarding to privacy and individuality a problem that has already risen with social medias which i think is relevent and a concern with big data and its power to shape public opinion (cambridge analytica for example)
When reading this text, i wasn't surprised as the digital sector has the ability to only show only one positive side which are the interfaces. This invisibility of workers qnd the use of low cost labor is not only in the digital and tech companies but all around bug multinational companies. But it is true that with digital and tech companies in my opinion it has increased its use. As it still doesn't justify the overexploitation of human laborn i deaply think that is linked to our ouversoncuption and capistalistic model world.
It will always facinate how Uber has one of the world's largest transportation apps without owning a car and airbnb being one of the biggest housing app without owning a single house. When reading this text it reminded me on my previous opinion about the last one, the "uberisation" of our society is a direct coonsequence to over consumption and capitalisme. When a company like Uber wants to maximise its user experience it forgets about who actually work for them and do not seem to respect as much as their customers. The problem of digital companies, working in such models only show you a nice "display" and not the reality behind it and the people living in terrible situation under pressure.
Like discussed in class, one of the main problems on using Ai in court and especially this model is transparency. In this context, it is hard to apprehend why does the introduction of these aalgorthmic toolswere intended to bring more objtectivity to the process insted seemed to have perpetuated and in som cases, exacerbated existing biases.. I personnaly think its an interesting tool that can be used to analyse cases and give a more objectif decision but i pdon't think its a good idea to use these algorithmes on an entire case..Also when takin in accounts these programs because of the lack of transparency it is also necessary to take step backs.
I've always visualised AI as sophisticated programms but only in their limited defined field like mentioned in the text. As someone who still thinks that these programms are inherently just a combination of 1 and 0, i did not expect that AI wouldd see a such huge evolution in the past 2 years with the introduction of deep learning which in my opinion has revolutionize AI modelling. And this rapid growing field is making me scared, mostly because i may not have enough knowledge on what is behind but also its impact on mankind in the years to come.