Oracle's Larry Ellison warns of AI-powered surveillance state with constant citizen monitoring
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Keumars Afifi-Sabet
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Summary
Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison warned during a September 2024 financial analyst meeting about the rise of an aggressive surveillance state powered by AI, drones, and ubiquitous cameras. He described a future where citizens are constantly monitored and recorded, with AI processing vast amounts of video footage from streets and cars, suggesting this will keep people "on their best behavior." The article presents Ellison's vision as a dire warning about the erosion of privacy in the 21st century.
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This world that Ellison describes revolves around AI technologies processing huge amounts of video footage from the explosion of cameras in the streets, cars
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