The Whiteheads are probably overwrought on this one; nevertheless AI will certainly be a boon for the surveillance state. From John and Nisha Whitehead at rutherford.org:
“If one company or small group of people manages to develop godlike digital superintelligence, they could take over the world. At least when there’s an evil dictator, that human is going to die. But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever. And then you’d have an immortal dictator from which we can never escape.”—Elon Musk (2018)
The Deep State is about to go turbocharged.
While the news media fixates on the extent to which Project 2025 may be the Trump Administration’s playbook for locking down the nation, there is a more subversive power play taking place under cover of Trump’s unique brand of circus politics.
Take a closer look at what’s unfolding, and you will find that all appearances to the contrary, Trump isn’t planning to do away with the Deep State. Rather, he was hired by the Deep State to usher in the golden age of AI.
Get ready for Surveillance State 2.0.
To achieve this turbocharged surveillance state, the government is turning to its most powerful weapon yet: artificial intelligence. AI, with its ability to learn, adapt, and operate at speeds unimaginable to humans, is poised to become the engine of this new world order.
Over the course of 70 years, the technology has developed so rapidly that it has gone from early computers exhibiting a primitive form of artificial intelligence to machine learning (AI systems that learn from historic data) to deep learning (machine learning that mimics the human brain) to generative AI, which can create original content, i.e., it appears able to think for itself.
What we are approaching is the point of no return.
“What we are approaching is the point of no return”.
The Whiteheads are right, not overwrought on this one.
Trump has never been an outsider, he is a billionaire and has alwasy been part of the establishment.
Ai will be used to enslave humanity. Trump is just the vector to start it in the US.
Anecdote: A friend looking for a job made the mistake to apply to a (foreign) company posing as a US one.
A soon as he applied, he received an email with links for an “Ai interview”, where he was obliged to sign and read lenghty legal blabla to basically give away any privacy rights he had.
Then follwoing the links, a video with a fake human started to speak to him and the Ai program unrolled the interview. It was too late when he realized that all this wasn’t a recruitment but a way to feed and train the monster while stealing his data and coning him.
The company is called: trip.com and the Ai is managed by so-called “airecruitas.com” (scammers).
How many millions are going to lose their jobs for such practices? How many millions will be swindled by crooks like this?
This is only the beginning, next is machines controlling every aspct of our lives and destroying human interactions.