This is how we save the world: by making the cyberworld safe and secure for everyone. We detect, research and disclose any malware -- regardless of origin or purpose.
The Balkanization of IT security will have a very significant long-term negative impact on global IT security, so let's do what we do best: analyze cyberthreats, reveal the digital villains, and protect our future. And let's do this all together.
If the "calamity prophets" are finally right, and this time the machines really will win out, this is why. It's not just that computers seem to be infiltrating every aspect of our lives, it's that they have infiltrated them and are infiltrating them with breathless rapidity. It's not just that life seems to have sped up, it's that it has. And that speed, and that infiltration, appear to have a life of their own.
What Brynjolfsson and McAfee are also saying is that while technological progress is going to force many people to submit to tightly monitored control of their movements, with their productivity clearly measured, that progress is also going to benefit perhaps just a few as it races ahead. And that, it appears, is what is happening.
It is naive to believe that government is competent, let alone in a position, to control the development and deployment of robots, self-generating algorithms, and artificial intelligence. Government has too many constituent parts that have their own, sometimes competing, visions of the technological future. Business, of course, is self-interested and resists regulation. We, the people, are on our own here -- though if the AI developers have their way, not for long.
