Political leaders feel compelled to provide a “service” in which they “solve” societal problems. Not all problems can be solved across the board, however, so what happens is a sideways motion into violations of privacy in exchange for a visible “difference” in handling illegal behavior which was previously beyond the reach of law enforcement.
This fallacy is a direct result of the technologies developed and discussed here, so we’re all culpable for what has been already laid down. Maybe keeping this in mind with AI will help, but given corporate stakeholders, probably not.
With stuff like phones there's probably plenty of options for mass production of open source hardware modules purchasable from electronic hobbyist stores anonymously with cash which would allow anyone to build their own personal communicator with radio, SIM, wifi, quantum, etc modules.
The issue is that competitive mass production of many independent compatible modules would required a public description of an applied system that everyone can debate and discuss and agree to on technical merits, but people self-censor and don't want to share ideas for such applied systems online because they think some monopolist is going to patent everything in order to arbitrarily halt development for 20 years.
In order to achieve such a cultural shift it might be necessary to reform the religions.
This fallacy is a direct result of the technologies developed and discussed here, so we’re all culpable for what has been already laid down. Maybe keeping this in mind with AI will help, but given corporate stakeholders, probably not.