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+title = "iHuman"
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+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["documentary", "ai", "technology", "society"]
+
+[extra]
+author = "harald"
+genre = "Documentary"
+country = "Norway"
+year = 2019
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+{% figure(img="ihuman-poster.jpg", alt="iHUMAN poster") %}
+iHUMAN poster
+{% end %}
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+The Norwegian documentary _iHuman_ explores the current state of artificial
+intelligence by letting some of the formative people in the business speak more
+or less freely. Both the people who work on AI, and sees the technology in a
+positive light, and the sceptics and those wary of it. Together they paint a
+fairly bleak picture of what is ahead.
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+The strength of this documentary is that it does not try to hide either side.
+It lets the people involved speak for themselves. While the end picture may be
+bleak, it is also complex — there are no easy answers. Neither does the film try
+to provide any. It does however, give a good overview of the powers that
+fight for control over this space.
+
+I don't think I spoil too much when revealing that the research, funding and
+development of advanced AI is dominated by a handful of extremely powerful
+companies in cooperation with another handful of shady nation states and their
+militaries. These may not be the people or organizations we want to dictate the
+future development of our global society.
+
+All in all there's no surprises here. All of this is fairly well known to anyone
+who has paid any attention to the way the tech industry has evolved over the past
+decades. Still it is a good reminder that we should be sceptical when the most
+profitable companies in the world claims to have our interest in mind, and that
+they know what's best for us.
+
+We should question their motives, their relentless and unregulated collection of
+data about us, and their power over political processes, both through lobbying
+and more covert and manipualative ways. The film touches on these questions, but
+there's limits to how deep you can go in a mere one and a half hour.
+
+Still it gives a lot of food for thought, and hopefully gives us more of an idea
+about which questions we should ask.
+
+As one of the subjects in the documentary says: In the end this isn't a
+question about technology. It's a question of what kind of world we want to
+live in.