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Before his links to the world were cut by his Ecuadorian hosts, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange gave an interview on how technological advances are changing humankind. He said global surveillance will soon be totally unavoidable.<\/div>\n
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The interview was provided to RT by organizers of the World Ethical Data Forum in Barcelona. Assange, who is currently stranded in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London with no outside communication except with his legal team, has a pretty grim outlook on where humanity is going. He says it will soon be impossible for any human being to not be included in global databases collected by governments and state-like entities.<\/div>\n
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This generation being born now\u2026 is the last free generation.<\/em>\u00a0You are born and either immediately or within say a year you are known globally. Your identity in one form or another \u2013coming as a result of your idiotic parents plastering your name and photos all over Facebook or as a result of insurance applications or passport applications\u2013 is known to all major world powers.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cA small child now in some sense has to negotiate its relationship with all the major world powers\u2026 It puts us in a very different position. Very few technically capable people are able to live apart, to choose to live apart, to choose to go their own way,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he added.\u00a0\u201cIt smells a bit like totalitarianism \u2013 in some way.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The capacity to collect and process information about people has been growing exponentially and will continue to grow fast, he stated. With advancements in applying Artificial Intelligence (AI) to big data, the next logical step is coming.<\/p>\n

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\u201cLook at what Google and Baidu and Tencent and Amazon and Facebook are doing. They are basically open-cut harvesting the knowledge of humankind as we express it, when we communicate with each other\u2026 This classical model, which people in academia call \u2018surveillance capitalism\u2019\u2026 has changed now.<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a really very important and severe economic change. Which is to take the surveillance capitalism model and transform it instead into a model that does not yet have a name, an \u2018AI model\u2019. Which is to use this vast reservoir to train Artificial Intelligences of different kinds. This would replace not only intermediary sectors \u2013most things you do on the internet is in a sense more efficient intermediation\u2013 but to take over the transport sector, or create whole new sectors.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Assange also predicted that the scale of hostile activities through cyberspace will see a breakout point as soon as AI is trained to sufficiently automate hacking attacks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no border [online]. It\u2019s 220 milliseconds from New York to Nairobi. Why would there ever be peace in such a scenario?\u201d<\/em>\u00a0he said.\u00a0\u201c[Entities online] are creating their own borders using cryptography. But the size of the attack surface for any decent-sized organization, the number of people, different types of software and hardware it has to pull inside itself means that it is very hard to establish.<\/em><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it\u2019s really possible to come up with borders that are predictable enough and stable enough to eliminate conflict. Therefore, there will be more conflict.<\/em><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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