For the People and By the People: Shaping Norms for the Internet of Things (Susan Ariel Aaronson, Council on Foreign Relations)

In 2012, then CIA Director General David Petraeus gave a disturbing speech on the internet of things (IoT). He noted that individuals, firms, and governments increasingly rely on devices like cars, refrigerators, and smart watches equipped with sensors and connected to the internet. Petraeus contended that IoT-related technologies are changing societal notions of what tasks machines acting “on their own” or in communion with other devices can do. He warned that these devices not only “think, but they are learning to … sense and respond.”

http://blogs.cfr.org/cyber/2016/10/17/for-the-people-and-by-the-people-shaping-norms-for-the-internet-of-things/