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On the day the U.K.s highest court ruled<\/a> he had unlawfully suspended parliament, British PM Boris Johnson wanted to talk instead about the challenges posed by Amazons virtual assistant Alexa.<\/p>\n

\u201cDigital authoritarianism is not, alas, the stuff of dystopian fantasy but of an emerging reality,\u201d Johnson warned bemused world leaders in his inaugural address<\/a> to the U.N. General Assembly in New York late Tuesday, calling on them to be \u201cmore ambitious\u201d in ensuring \u201cthat new advances reflect our values.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the future, voice connectivity will be in every room and almost every object,\u201d the PM said. \u201cYour mattress will monitor your nightmares; your fridge will beep for more cheese, your front door will sweep wide the moment you approach, like some silent butler; your smart meter will go hustling for the cheapest electricity. And every one of them minutely transcribing your every habit in tiny electronic shorthand, stored not in their chips or their innards \u2026 but in some great cloud of data that lours ever more oppressively over the human race, a giant dark thundercloud waiting to burst. And we have no control over how or when the precipitation will take place.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cinternet of things\u201d could be useful, but \u201ccould also be used to keep every citizen under round-the-clock surveillance,\u201d Johnson told the half-empty audience, as some leaders and their envoys appeared to be attempting to stifle their mirth<\/a>. \u201cA future [Amazon] Alexa will pretend to take orders. But this Alexa will be watching you, clucking her tongue and stamping her foot.\u201d<\/p>\n

Johnson also pondered the implications of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

\u201cAI, what will it mean?\u201d he mused. \u201cHelpful robots washing and caring for an ageing population, or pink-eyed terminators sent back from the future to cull the human race? What will synthetic biology stand for: restoring our livers and our eyes with miracle regeneration of the tissues, like some fantastic hangover cure? Or will it bring terrifying limbless chickens to our tables? Will nanotechnology help us to beat disease, or will it leave tiny robots to replicate in the creRead More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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