ABSTRACT
The fifth default setting concerns the permanent imperative of surveillance. Normalizing the political and economic interests of ‘surveillance capitalism’ that feeds on private information, the adjustments imposed on users by this imperative shatter their experiences of privacy, integrity, and trust, and incite a submissive orientation to authority and to intelligent machines. This is especially the case because the information users are coerced to produce pertains not only to their rational behaviors but also, and especially, to their emotional reactions. The chapter then moves beyond surveillance to examine the adjustments that will become increasingly necessary by programmed autonomy, and concludes with a discussion of the dangers posed by the rapid mutation in the artificial intelligence that drives our terminals.
