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Thread on AI and self-sovereignty, occasioned by conversation at #CCE2020
1. The AI conversation today is like the mainframe conversation before personal computing came along
2. Most AI talk (that I& #39;ve heard, anyway) is about getting insights about people, so (a) laws can be enforced, and (b) people can be sold shit. That& #39;s worse than sub-minimal.
3. Personal AI should be about what people have and use in their lives: their health, wellness, finances, travel, possessions (and not just smart ones), calendars, contacts (their actual social networks)
4. To have that control, that agency (over one& #39;s AI, or anything), is to be self-sovereign
5. Self-sovereignty is just about agency. It doesn& #39;t exclude corporate, government, social or other forms of help. But it isn& #39;t preconditioned on them. In computing terms, it& #39;s owning root.
6. Self-sovereignty is owning #root in your own life. Like the t-shirt says:
7. Companies and governments can& #39;t own root for you, just like they can& #39;t think, breathe, laugh or talk for you. Yes, they too can (and are) self-sovereign. But no more than you are.
8. There is already work happening here, with #SSI: self-sovereign identity: See http://bing.com/search?q=self+sovereign+identity+SSI.">https://bing.com/search... It& #39;s still early. There are also doors into it through @VRM @Me2B @me2balliance @mydata @kantara, et. al.
