And I guarantee that billionaire Larry Ellison blithely believes that he'll be exempt - that all of this surveillance will just be used against the little people. And he's almost certainly right.

Owner of Cloud company that sells AI services tells governments that AI-powered surveillance is good.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. - Ursula K Le Guin

He’s voicing what every billionaire and government official already thinks. Call me pessimist but I believe it’s unavoidable. VPNs are seen as “tools to overcome government bans to access illegal websites” in so many countries, hence getting banned. Access to mainstream websites also getting harder and harder when on VPN. People hosting Tor exit nodes are living in fear of police raids.

Even with some little amount of privacy protecting measures, websites start to act strangely or do not work, and the amount of websites like this increases every day. As protecting our privacy becomes a bigger and bigger effort, more people will give up, strengthening the arguments against it. Eventually we’ll hit big brother levels.

Maybe billionaires should be filmed and streamed continuously, since their behavior has such a big impact on the world. If they don't like it maybe we shouldn't allow them to control such incredible assets. I'm sure billionaires have nothing sketchy to hide, right? What we will see is probably how they are hard working people who are not at all detached from normal folks. Right?

Fuck you Larry.

By "citizens" he means poor people, naturally, and by "best behaviour" he means obedience to authority.

The first XKCD that comes to mind

Ellision sounds like the kind of guy that wants an unstoppable army of robot swarms.

Representative Jamie Raskin recently brought up the term neo-monarchy.

So the Panopticon. The hypothetical prison that even people in the 1800s thought would be a human rights violation to build because it was such an extreme form of psychological torture.

I have been hating this man's guts since the mid 90's and somehow it never lets off. Most hateful people manage to become a little bit more likeable as they age. Even this disgusting piece of human refuse Bill Gates might pass for a somewhat okay human being if you wilfully overlook why he truly does philanthropy.

But Larry Ellison? Hell no. He never changes. he's just consistently the worst year after year, decade after decade.

“Citizens” 🙄 Not every person is a citizen; I’ve got a pet peeve about this.

This dude can shove that stupid boat up his ass

Lmg, he'll be exempt from this surveillance along with all his rich ass-hole buddies

billionaires who talk like this should immediately be committed. he's clearly far gone, just fucking take him away.

My best behavior is to be on Larry Ellison's front yard with pitchforks burning torches and guillotines.

But they're will be no cameras in his torture dungeon, of course.

what he really means is he can make a ton of money out of it

I aim to misbehave

Dude is crying for a guillotine. Someone tell this asshole movies aren't real life events. lmao

Private jets . They’ve all got multiple front yards & none of us can afford pitchforks But small aeroplanes, those are weak. & these parasites just looove em

"[Stupid rich person shit]"

--Larry Ellison, soon to be major shareholder of Paramount

And a fueled bottle can keep billionaires in check.

Thank you all for these comments, they have made another horrible piece of news a bit less horrible (by knowing people are apaled by this shit).

in bad country the ruling class uses AI scoring system to ensure the compliance of the workers

Ay they took capitalism so far it wrapped around into orwellian territory.

Who defines what best behavior is?

Those are not citizens. This is not a democracy.

"We're going to have supervision," Ellison said. "Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person. Citizens will be on their best behavior because we are constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on."

And if we entertained the idea that this was true and the core focus of this idea (it's not) what do we think the chances are that the "appropriate person" will be one of two things:

1. Another cop

2. A subscription service digital surveillance company with that cop as a client that they report back to for "internal investigation", as long as the bill is paid.

Was he on that island discussing whether the billionaires could keep their security detail loyal with shock collars?

Ellison is the world's sixth-richest man with a net worth of $157 billion, according to Bloomberg.

They are really concerned when people tire of their children dying from hunger and easily treatable diseases, we'll be coming for them. But rather than give up an iota of the money generations can never spend for our ecology and things people need to live, they resort to things like shock collars and surveillance states.

In other words, lack of accountability leads to bad behaviour. He might be onto something there…