Prophecy Quotes

“Adding more hay to the haystack just makes the needle harder to find.”
― Carissa Véliz, Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

“Power is having the ability to motivate someone to think or do something that they wouldn’t otherwise.[”
― Carissa Véliz, Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI

“Data brokers all over the world have a data file on you. It contains information like your name, age, gender, income, education, and occupation. Data brokers, who behave with eerie similarity to vultures, track family life events like marriages, divorces, funerals, and pregnancies. They know who your family and friends are. They infer your sexual preferences, political tendencies, and health status, all without your permission. They track your location, which allows them to know where you live, where you work, how well you drive, whether you are buying drugs, or going to a psychologist, or attending a family planning clinic, whether you are having an affair (through patterns like two phones coming together in a hotel every week), and much more than you can imagine. They then “add value” by predicting what you’ll do next and selling that to the highest bidder.”
― Carissa Véliz, Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI