A prior Facebook executive has quit his job and now entity as a recluse in the wilderness – due to he is convinced that machines Testament take over the world.
Antonio Garcia Martinez worked as a design manager for the social media hulk in Silicon Valley but became frightened by the relentless march of technology.
Antonio Garcia Martinez, who now Boisterous to live as a recluse
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He compute that machines will hold taken half of humanity’s position within 30 years, sparking rebellion and armed conflict.
So he quit his job, fled his internal and now lives in woodland north of City with a gun for protection.
He spoke to new two-belongings BBC2 documentary “Secrets of Element Valley”, which reconnoitre the growing influence of the tech hub on wide-ranging development.
Mr Martinez said: “If the microcosm really does end, there aren’t thriving to be many places to run.
“Within 30 second childhood, half of humanity won’t keep a job. It could get ugly. There could be a uprising.
“I’ve seen what the apple will look like in fivesome to 10 years.
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“You may not believe it but it’s time to come, and it’s coming in the form of a self-impulsive truck that’s going to run you upon.
“There are 300 million guns in this native land, one for every man, woman and child, and they’re largely in the hands of those who are getting economically displaced. Thither could be a revolt.
“You don’t realise it but we’re in a raceway between technology and politics, and technologists are captivating. They’re way ahead.
“They Testament destroy jobs and disrupt thrift before we even react to them and we real should be thinking about that.”
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said other ex-Element Valley employees had also unhopeful and were living on land loney from society because they were as frightened of what the future held.
Program host Jamie Bartlett, administrator of the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media, aforementioned: “The tech gods are selling us all a more useful future but Silicon Valley’s predict to build a better world relies on violent up the world as it is. They call it ‘gap’.
“The mantra of Silicon Valley is that gap is always good, and through crafty phones and digital technology we can beget more efficient, more accessible, faster services and everyone out first from that.
“But behind that charmingly designed app or that slick podium there’s a quite brutal design of capitalism unfolding and it’s leaving any of the poorest people in society carry on.
“There’s a risk Silicon Depression’s promise to build a better cosmos could inflict a nightmare inevitable on millions of us.
“The big secret in Silicon Depression is that the next wave of interruption could tear apart the way capitalism toil, and as a result the way we live our lives could be thoroughly transformed. “
Artificial intelligence innovator Jeremy Howard said: “Humanity aren’t scared enough.
“They’re expression ‘Don’t worry about it, there Testament always be more jobs’.
“And it’s supported on this purely historical abstraction of there has been a revolution beforehand, it was called the Industrial Revolution, and aft it there were still plenty jobs, therefore this new, all different, totally unrelated revolt will also have sufficiency jobs.
“It’s a ludicrously short-seeing, meaningless argument which unbelievably smart people are making.”
He aforementioned if society did nothing, a “tiny congregation of society” would own “all of the capital and all of the material and everybody else adds no monetary value, is despised by the class that has article because they’re worthless” creating “bulky social unrest”.
Secrets of Si Valley is on BBC2 at 8pm on Sunday, August 6.
