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> What happens when AI is analyzing all of that information...

They run simulations against N million personality models, accurately predicting the outcome of any news story/event/stimulus. They use this power to shape national and global events to their own ends. This is what privacy and digital sovereignty advocates have been warning the public about for over a decade, to no avail.



This is much worse than overt authoritarian control, because the controlled aren't even aware of it.


I don't know how viable it is. Even for AI, there are just too many intermingled variables when it comes to human behavior.

All the money in the world has been invested into trying to do it with stock markets, and they still can't do better than average.


You should watch the matrix, especially the first 3




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