The smartphone is eventually going to die, and we’re not ready for what comes next – AR and the dark side
Again: These tech companies are asking us to hand control of our senses over to a computer with these smart glasses. If, today, a dedicated and unscrupulous party can figure out ways to get you to watch a video you don't want to see, it's anyone's guess what can happen when those same principles are applied to what we see in our everyday lives.
And, as Engadget pointed out, the recent controversies over YouTube star Logan Paul prove that the algorithm isn't necessarily self-policing. His now-notorious video of finding a dead body in Japan's "suicide forest" wouldn't have been picked up by any computer system as objectionable — it took the very human response of outrage to prove that.
In other words, we're trusting an imperfect system to rank the information in our lives, and soon, our senses. It's a harder problem to solve - you can always improve the quality of information you spread, but it's harder to come up with a mathematical algorithm that sorts data that doesn't have some kind of bias, one way or the other.
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