By Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou
Society needs the police to impose order and balance on it, but man is uncomfortable with the policing of his personal life. Unfortunately, however, policing is increasingly moving into the private and internal areas of man, not necessarily by the police, but by modern technology.
We all know that phones, mobile and fixed, are monitored for social and national security. Also, various voices are heard about the chips that are inserted everywhere, even in ID cards.
However, the policing is done in ways that we do not suspect, since the mobile "smart" phones determine at least the place of our stay, and the GPS that we use for our path to the exact destination, tracks us with precision.
I recently read an interview Matthew Griffin gave to Natasha Batea (TA NEA, Saturday 30-31 March 2024), who "works with governments and big business preparing for the future," on the subject of artificial intelligence. Among others, he also referred to the issue we are dealing with here.
To the journalist's question: "In a few years will artificial intelligence be everywhere?" he answered honestly.
"It is already everywhere. This interview we are doing now is being recorded by the zoom we use, in order to analyze its content and help train the company's artificial intelligence. Google uses artificial intelligence for search results. When you go to the stores, you are monitored by security cameras that use artificial intelligence and machine vision to understand where you go, what you look at, what interests you, to give ideas for the reconfiguration of the store. When you make online reservations, artificial intelligence tries to understand who you are."
In the following comment of the journalist: "So it is a fact, we have bid farewell to 'personal data'," he replied:
"Facebook has over 5,000 pieces of data for most users. Take this zoom call for example. If I had artificial intelligence and a camera, I could tell what country you're from, your nationality, your level of education, if you went to private or public school, if you've lived in another country from the way you speak, if you have dementia or depression from words you use, from the tone of your voice, from the posture of the body. I know where you are from the GPS, if you have genetic congenital diseases, if you lie from the retina of your eyes, if you have a skin condition from the flashes on your face. I know where you shop because AI can detect the clothes you wear. All this from just one call. And then it can combine everything and I have a lot of data for you."
This means that the policing of "personal data" is a given. As long as we all use modern means of communication and move in the society that is controlled by modern technology, it means that we exchange the security of our movements with the policing of our personal data.
Thus, it is an urgent need to maintain the integrity of a clean heart, the purity of our thoughts, to keep the commandments of Christ, so that we are not afraid of "policing". All the modern data of artificial intelligence and high technology in general can control our thoughts, our actions, our movements, but they cannot control our pure heart, when Christ dwells there, because "He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world" (1 Jn. 4:4).
Source: Translated by John Sanidopoulos.
