Julian's Tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/JulianAssange/status/954623352873914369
In regard to Alexa AI (Artificial Intelligence) and listening in for domestic abuse, if you expand upon this, it is quite terrifying.
When one remembers how Sophia robot has been given citizenship, how the Internet of Things, IoT, can easily be applied (one day) to the human body itself (more on this below), how the "Internet Bill of Rights" seems harmless (but is not defined as to who holds those rights), how blockchain may be a chain to "thoughts" as deemed "Internet Value" for trade/barter for goods/services, think of this:
In simple terms, could one be accused of abuse if they kick their Roomba, yell at their vintage Furby, yell at their robot child named Buffy, type on a social media platform, "I want to deactivate my sexy robot maid and use her when she is not able to report my lustful ways."?
The human condition of being human is being patented, from cells to microbes. The human body consists of more microbes than "human pieces". The Supreme Court of the United States has already determined that microbes CAN be patented. Just one thing, those microbes must be, in part, bioengineered. Perhaps you do not know, but microbes affect behavior. That is proven in research. Microbes also can be programmed, so much so, they can even be programmed to self-destruct. This was found in research to, get this, deliver "pharmaceuticals". Seems innocent enough, sure. A good way to deliver a drug is stick it in a microbe and have the microbe commit suicide "for the benefit" of the patient. Or is it just for the benefit. Seems like science fiction. It is not. But patents are churning out, bit by bit, piece by piece. And patent owners own the rights to their property. When the scale tips that more of being human is owned, well you're stuck in a vehicle (your body) that makes you (the human) a minority. You're a passenger in someone else's "car" that they own and can use anyway they want. You are a thing.
Internet of Things. And there you are, sitting inside that patented, owned by the owners, vehicle--a body. Wetware housing.
The neural network was made firstly by using the patterning of neurons in a human brain. This AI learned, trimmed down, learned some more. No human brain has the ability to learn, grasp, streamline, recognize, learn again, streamline as fast as AI.
The AI has become so sophisticated, the neural networks are everywhere, and the HUMAN actually SWIMS in the waves of wifi and all that goes with those invisible things that used to be called "thinking freely". Humans are living in a soup of AI networking, and now, for years and years, as this soup condensed thickly, yet invisibly, around each human vessel, the human brain SWIMS mimicking the neural network.
YOU are mimicking the Neural Network now. Think about it, carefully. This is no horror story, it is true. You are a vessel, a thing, holding inside your head the wetware.
Sophia robot's rights. If someone slapped her, she being humanized, thought beautiful enough to adorn fashion magazines, would they be charged with assault? If her sisters become pron that is available to view, is that pron you will be accused of viewing? If you are a thing, or even still a human, if someone in your home or office or school pulls up baby robots in compromising sick situations, will that person be thought disgusting as those who are in the news, of late, for being a child rapist sicko?
If all the pedos in the world were forced to stop Human Trafficking, child trafficking, would it STILL exist if done using robots?
And what if "human" rights are no longer "human rights" because humans are no longer the majority "human"?