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1 THE NEXT INTERNET

2 TODAY S MENU Net Neutrality The big break-up AI and the future of humanity

3 BUT FIRST Tim Cook International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commisioners (Brussels) Data Industrial Complex OUR OWN INFORMATION, FROM THE EVERYDAY TO THE DEEPLY PERSONAL, IS BEING WEAPONIZED AGAINST US WITH MILITARY EFFICIENCY.

4 NET NEUTRALITY

5 A REMINDER The internet has a physical presence Private not public Tubes, cables, pipes, and wires Speaking of cable

6 ISP ISP = Internet Service Provider Local service comes via cable TV Cable TV is (mostly) a monopoly

7 STREAMING YouTube and the origins of streaming Bandwidth issues Competition with cable TV comes through cable TV

8 NET NEUTRALITY ISPs will show no preference for information passed through its wires No blocked content (from competitors) No differential speeds

9 ORIGINS Put in place during the George W. Bush era Idea was to promote innovation and fair competition

10 WHY IS IT AN ISSUE NOW? Cable companies have pushed back Ajit Pai, chairman of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission): law is over-regulation Compliance should be voluntary

11 WHAT MIGHT HAPPEN? Higher costs for internet access Privatization of a privately-held resource Content regulation Loss of innovation

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13 CALIFORNIA FCC s federal preemption California s Net Neutrality law Feb. 1, 2019: US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

14 THINGS FALL APART?

15 ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers US Gov t turned over full control to ICANN in October 1, 2016 The last bit was the DNS (Domain Name System)

16 WHY DO THIS? To ensure the internet remains a private, multistakeholder system Technical experts, not government, make the right decisions

17 WHY OPPOSE THIS? Private enforcement of the First Amendment ICANN open to manipulation Foreign governments emboldened by US withdrawal

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19 COMPLICATIONS Edward Snowden NSA surveillance revelations Russia and others: Loss of trust in the global internet

20 THE ALTERNATIVE International Telecommunication Union (ITU) UN controls the internet US role is sidelined Global commons or Balkanization?

21 THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET Fight to keep the democratic commons A world of intranets Multiple internets Splinternet

22 EFF Electronic Frontier Foundation Founded 1990 Protecting privacy and free expression Activism, litigation, policy development

23 AI

24 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Can a machine be human? Are humans just biological machines?

25 THE BIG DEBATE Mark Zuckerburg: AI offers a wonderful future Elon Musk: AI offers a dismal future Rise of the machines or robot dance party?

26 MILESTONES Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov (1997) Google DeepMind s AlphaGo defeats Go master Lee Sedol (2015)

27 THE TURING TEST Machine intelligence indistinguishable from human intelligence University of Reading competition (2014): Eugene Goostman passes the Turing test

28 BLUE BRAIN PROJECT (2005) Henry Markram Reverse engineering the human brain into computer code Is humanity really just complex code?

29 THE INTERNET OF THINGS Smart devices Communication devices Interconnectedness Neural networks

30 SELF-DRIVING CARS Early example of AI Driving as skill-set Driving as moralchoice Self-driving technology creates more vulnerabilities

31 Could a smart car hack itself?

32 VIRTUAL LIFE

33 MACHINE SLURS Stop calling them robots AMA = Artificial Moral Agent

34 PUTTING THINGS TOGETHER Replicating the human brain 3D printing = skin, body organs, etc. Titanium skeletons

35 WHY DO THIS? Hazardous or undesirable jobs All other jobs Soldiers Companions

36 EMPLOYMENT No more dangerous work No more work Permanent vacation AMAs of the world unite?

37 WARFARE Nonviolent warfare? Uploading the Geneva Conventions Should AMA soldiers be moral or lethal? What could go wrong?

38 COMPANIONS Caretakers Short-term companions Long-term companions

39 PARO Robotic harp seal Facial and voice recognition Emotional support in elder-care and posttsunami Japan

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41 HUMANS AND OTHERS

42 TRUST THE MACHINE Can we truly learn to trust machines Can machines learn to trust us?

43 REAL STORY, VIRTUAL LIFE In September 2009, a South Korean couple was arrested for letting their 3-month old daughter die from malnutrition while the parents raised a virtual child online

44 FOR THE LOVE OF HUMANITY In Japan, researchers at Osaka University are creating robots for night-clubs and for long-term intimate relationships Carl the Bartender

45 SOME NUMBERS UK poll (2014): 20% of Britons would have sex with a robot UK poll (2017): 33% say they would HARMONY, THE WORLD S FIRST AI SEX ROBOT

46 KIWIBOTS UC Berkeley AI and food delivery Human-Machine interaction

47 Kuri the Robot

48 CONCERN? Within 5 years, the number of personalassistance bots will surpass the number of people Smart speakers Privacy and surveillance I m listening always

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50 VOICE TIME Switching screen time for voice time Permanent online time Frictionless connections Never out of range

51 HUMANS Humanoids close enough? The new machine normal Intimate confessions

52 Yangyang: the Chinese humanoid

53 Hatsune Miku, The World is Mine

54 AH, HUMANS Tay and TayTweets: Microsoft s AI chat bot goes bad very quickly (March 2016)

55 PERFECTION AND IMPERFECTION Will the perfection of virtual worlds make us intolerant of the imperfections of the real one? Will virtual worlds become our real worlds?

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57 FAKE NEWS GETS VOCAL Lyrebird Designed to create synthetic, human-like speech Learns voice patterns then can make anyone say pretty much anything

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59 CYBERSECURITY: IN THE END

60 FROM PERPLEXED TO EMPOWERED It s a scary digital universe Not knowing how it works = intimidation Knowing how it works = empowerment

61 OPTIMISM OR PESSIMISM? The epic struggle of good vs. evil becomes digitized Vigilance, not paranoia The informed user: a form of activism

62 ESSENTIAL RULE #3 OLLI hacktivists shouldn t wait for the next internet to happen. They should help make it happen.

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