Georgetown Law lays down the total surveillance society with skilled and documented precision. Detroit and Chicago may be the first to have China-like surveillance with cameras everywhere, but more cities are close behind. Technocracy is coming, and is dangerously close.
Technocrats at DARPA are intent on creating a non-surgical brain-machine interface as a force-multiplier for soldiers. The research will require "Investigational Device Exemptions" from the Administration.
Out of control killer AI in warfare is inevitable because it will become too complex for human management and control. The only real answer is to not developing it in the first place.
EU Technocrats define ethics for AI: "Environmental and societal well-being — AI systems should be sustainable and “enhance positive social change.” This is the coveted 'Science of Social Engineering' that harkens back to the original Technocracy movement in the 1930s.
All of China's 1.4 billion citizens are enrolled in its facial recognition and Social Credit System, resulting in 13 million being blacklisted; as a result, China is bragging that it has 'restored morality'.
When insurance companies, HMOs, medicare, etc., implement this technology, patients will see rampant discrimination based on their AI health score; after all, who would sell a life insurance policy to someone who is going to die soon?
Threat analysis and decisions will be made autonomously, notifying border patrol agents; however, this is a slippery slope that could all too easily be inducted into broad law enforcement practices.
Even though President Trump has withdrawn from the Paris Climate Accord on global warming, apparently Secretary Perry has not gotten word, for the Department of Energy's web page on Climate Change is still present on the Energy.gov website.
The rapidly emerging AI arms race to create autonomous killing machines is Technocrat insanity at its highest peak. To the Technocrat mind, every problem has a scientific solution; so why not let an armed and lethal AI robot do all the work of human soldiers?
Like it or not, Augmented Reality is rapidly advancing to the point that people will not be able to tell the difference between real and unreal. Where boundaries and privacy do not exist, this will create a dystopian world.