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Originally Posted by Dopedangel
Profiling will probably help with terrorists and mass school shootings etc and many americans will be okay with it as well despite it harming innocent americans. I do feel we are getting to that point but the processing power and to do this will be with western corporations rather than western governments. . Just by data mining target has had the capability to predict that a teenage girl was pregnant even before her parents in 2010 They can predict a lot more but most western corporations don't have profit motive to do so and governments have been unable to do so without pushback.
China and many asian countries don't face similar pushback so they are building surveillance states that knows how a citizen spends every second they haven't got the AI that could monitor all its billions over citizens. But that is I feel just a few years away. |
And a few years afterwards the giant robots will follow.
Sentinels are the ultimate in profiling: detect mutant, detain mutant, kill mutant. No mutants, no mutant problem.
Substitute troublemakers of your choice for the X-Men.
Just don't assume the west will be immune to the lure of the proven solution. Attitudes change and actions breed reactions. After a while people get tired of half-measures even in the most "liberal" of places. Often as a first resort instead of the last. (C.f., WWII and the Nisei.)
Given enough ongoing provocation, people *will* resort to even the most extreme "solutions". Don't even need an evil madman leader. Just ask the Rohingya.