Big Tech

"Are we on the verge of becoming a society of cyborgs?"

The five major IT companies from Silicon Valley – Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Microsoft – are collectively known as Big Tech. Through the digital revolution, they have amassed enormous power and influence. Critics argue that their primary goal is profit, using our data for surveillance. The rapid pace of technological advancements is also a cause for concern – particularly the merging of humans and machines. What happens if artificial intelligence suddenly begins making decisions independently? Or if it starts to replicate and evolve on its own?
What do the experts say – is this just fear-mongering? Scientists like Stephen Hawking and Yuval Noah Harari think not: they warn that such a scenario might become a genuine threat to humanity.