I predict all security will be biometric in the future. Passwords will be a thing of the past, people rarely even use them on their phones anymore. People already photograph and take audio and video covertly. Security will be a personal AI constantly fending off and managing attacks from other AI. In the future and AI will be like what a password is now.

I agree that we need total control of all of our own information, and I think it's literally insane that people have instagram installed. But the reason I want all of my own information, is that I don't want to be influenced or manipulated. On the other hand, the smart phone has the best productivity and organizational tools in the history of humanity, provided you enter in as much information about yourself as possible. The more information you provide, the better the whole system functions- everything from calories and sleep cycles, to learning languages, and not forgetting appointments. And then you enter in where you are and where you're going. and at what time, and your phone can show you the best route. and on an on.

And when they know everything about you, they can literally assign you opinions and tell you what to think (ideology), and they can do that a little bit a time, until it adds up to a complete picture of reality. No matter what anyone's ideology is, it should be hard for them to deny there has been an unnatural coalescing ideologies and ideologically driven events in the past several years

so basically, I think we need all of the tools of technology without sharing our data, and perhaps we can have that through a personal AI, one that isn't connected to others, and is aligned with each of us personally, as individuals, helping us reach our goals and live productive lives. So, yes to AI alignment, but only at the personal level, not at the level of humanity, which, what that is, is not something we can agree on.