It was individual PEOPLE doing this under the aegis of a corporation. The individuals are to blame more than the company/corp; although, the company/corp involved should see sanctions as well.

The real issue is that humans will use AI in such a way that it kills all humans. AI itself is just a computer program and as such, can not directly affect the Real World without human help... such as giving it the authority to launch nuclear missiles whenever.

Plenty; although, you will never hear from them or meet them. They are busy working a 9-5 trying to survive (if they are lucky).

Bro, the word "woke" has been misused so badly that I feel an aversion to you using that word in relation to Star Trek.

To me, Star Trek removed all of the bullshit human reactions and worked directly with raw reality. An example: Two people kissed and it was a HUGE deal to a lot of people back then. Why? I was not sure as a child why. It was a boy and a girl kissing. Who cares? Wait what? The skin color of the woman mattered? Why? Why didn't the skin color of the man matter?

To me, it was just two people kissing. It was a complete non-issue for me. What really makes me cry is that I had thought we were done teaching bullshit to our kids... and yet here we are, 60 years later, with very large groups of people, still teaching hate and such to their kids. What the fuck happened?

No action will be taken against it anyways. WTF dude? You act like we have a government that has ANY concerns at all for its citizens. The only things that matter are money and power... and guess what? You don't have enough of either to matter to anyone who does.

Think about it for a second: The NSA knew this was happening. How could they not, since they monitor ALL data flows. They did nothing. There are numerous Attorneys General throughout the USA that could bring a lawsuit about this, but none have and none will.

Face it bro, all of your devices (car, phone, tv, wifi) are used to monitor you and it happens because those in authority want to monitor you. It will not stop. The war is over. The only war that mattered was in 1776 and Alexander Hamilton ensured we lost it in favor of centralized Executive Power.

Do what exactly? Voting, writing, speaking, all seem to have ZERO effect. I have nothing which motivates politicians nor other citizens. The only items that appear to change anything are money and already existing power. Since I was not born into power, I have none. Since I have no power, I have no significant amounts of money.

Pray tell, what can a citizen do to actually have any hope of stopping this wave of fascism? People at all levels of government appear to be fully captured. My current .sig seems to be exceedingly appropriate here.

It's a good thing we don't live in a Free Society then isn't it? Otherwise, all of this shit would be illegal and the government wouldn't be doing it. "Constitution", "Free", "Rights", are all sooo last century. It's a good thing that the People are irrelevant; otherwise, they would be mighty pissed about what is going on.

You barely touched on the most critical point here: People are being arrested and prosecuted based on the testimony of a private company. Think about it.

Why would anyone invest in a market that AI is going to wipe out in the not-too-distant future? The "average Joe" will be a slave on a farm somewhere, likely from inside of a prison. Or dead.

You do realize that China can just use Flock if they were interested in profiling Americans. The data is for sale, it is not secret data, just secret to those who can't afford it.

Your argument is meaningless even without Flock. China could just access the American manufacturers dataset that has been compiled over the years. If they can access the federal government Office of Personnel Management database to get data on everyone who holds or has held a Secret Clearance or higher, then the vehicle manufacturers don't stand a chance.

Allowing the Chinese cars into America would force the American manufacturers to either improve, or go out of business. If they go out of business, they needed to go out of business.

As it is, we have a bunch of lazy and entitled CEOs trying to milk what they have rather than innovate. I have never purchased an American made vehicle during my entire life. The value proposition is non-existent.

American vehicles in America absolutely have a kill switch. Go look on Youtube for police chases. The number of chases have been dropping rapidly for several years... because the police can just call GM or Ford and have the vehicle shut down.

All 'ism's end up with one person or group owning everything, including the people in society, unless that government collapses early. Capitalism, Socialism, Communism, EVERY ism ends up that way or destroyed.

I am beyond caring about the particular ism anyone follows. I now care about concentrating wealth between people. If two people with money are conspiring, they need to be executed, their families executed, and their properties burned to the ground.

Absolutely. Humans have one thing that all current AI lacks: Full situational awareness. People can interpret intent. People can look further and have a deeper understanding of what is happening around them. An AI can only react, a human can predict.

Now, the fact that numerous people surrender all of that is NOT an argument against humans as a whole. Autonomous vehicles are absolutely nowhere near the sophistication of a typical human.

AI can not "go rogue". It has no intrinsic motivation and only responds to input. That rock on the ground has the same chance at self-motivation that AI has.

A person might claim that AI can do so much more than a rock can; however, I would argue that the rock, with the correct velocity and angle, could have much more effect than an AI can.