What is the PRISM program?

2022-12-01 06:08:02

Prediction

This is secret program called PRISM, capture the private data of citizens who are not suspected of any connection to terrorism or any wrongdoing. This is a mechanism that allows the government to collect user data from companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Yahoo, and others. In 2021 there were 232432 targets under observation, in 2022 there were 244855 targets, in 2023 it is estimated there will be 264567 targets.

Reason

Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old intelligence contractor formerly employed by the NSA, CIA, and Booz Allen Hamilton, confessed responsibility for leaking the PRISM documents on June 2013.

National Security Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation to retrieve data directly from Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook or Meta, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple.

References

Data Harvesting Program: NSA as Pollster, PRISM as MISO

What is known about NSA PRISM program

Everything you need to know about PRISM

NSA slides explain the PRISM data-collection program

NSA Prism program taps in to user data of Apple, Google and others

Microsoft handed the NSA access to encrypted messages

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How will AI affect the global economy?

2023-07-27 00:08:26

Prediction

Despite all the fears and misgivings, AI will have a positive effect on the economy. AI will keep economic growth.

Reason

The majority of studies emphasise that AI will have a significant economic impact. Forecasts that by 2035, AI could double annual global economic growth rates. AI will drive this growth in three important ways. First, it will lead to a strong increase in labour productivity (by up to 40 %) due to innovative technologies enabling more efficient workforce-related time management. Secondly, AI will create a new virtual workforce – capable of solving problems and self-learning. Third, the economy will also benefit from the diffusion of innovation, which will affect different sectors and create new revenue streams.

Despite all the fears and misgivings, AI will have a positive effect on the economy. AI will keep economic growth.

AI leading to productivity gains in the near term, based on automation of routine tasks, which is likely to affect capital-intensive sectors such as manufacturing and transport. This will include extended use of technologies such as robots and autonomous vehicles. Productivity will also improve due to businesses complementing and assisting their existing workforce with AI technologies. It will require investing in software, systems and machines based on assisted, autonomous and augmented intelligence; this would not only enable the workforce to perform its tasks better and more efficiently but would also free up time allowing it to focus on more stimulating and higher value-added activities. Automation would partially remove the need for labour input, leading to productivity gains overall.

References

Notes from the AI frontier: Modeling the impact of AI on the world economy

Economic impacts of artificial intelligence (AI)

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Will Twitter succeed under Elon Musk?

2022-11-12 22:02:45

Prediction

Yes, but it will no longer be Twitter.

Reason

Elon Musk wants to turn Twitter into something like WeChat

Any product will be profitable if it is engaged and invested in

References

Elon Musk tells employees he wants Twitter to be more like WeChat and TikTok

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Can IT giants control our worldview?

2022-11-29 03:45:48

Prediction

Yes, they can

Reason

They analyse our perception of the world. Though George Orwell's all-seeing Big Brother was initially conceived as the metaphor of the omnipresent totalitarian state, today, its mission seems to have been taken on by IT giants.

Yes, they can