These various techniques of influencing targeted people have been going on forever, but with AI, they have new acronyms and it can happen much faster.
Now and always people who are not naturally inclined question and compare new data against their own experiences are the most easily influenced.
It's always been a weedom thing to look at all kinds of sources. So it's wild to see more and more people from disparate demographics and political leanings converging on the old Alex Jones, Infowars intro: "There's a war on for your mind!"
Thank you for this very informative detail on the realities and directions of AI. It sets out my concerns and well beyond.
I don't do Apple and have only very limited use of Windows 10. With Android the tentacles are palpable. Their efforts to discover are not imo confined to their AI apps.
Being forewarned is helpful. To me the next issue for those using AI is how to independantly acquire the knowledge base and grounding needed to adequately assess the validity of AI offerings.
The only (possibly flawed approach) possibly helpful strategy might be Brave/DuckDuckGo searchs for pubications relating to topics of concern. Maybe books. Maybe interviews. Maybe classes.
I'll be continue to learn and reflect via independant trusted sources on topics of my highest concerns. Thank heavens for you great Doctors help!
Your message is vital! Could even warrant a 2nd edition of PsyWars. I hope you can get it, its perspectives out far and wide!
Now, on to coping. Spring and time change on the horizon, along with more snow? :(
I no longer have social media accounts. I started letting them consume too much of my time: the pop up ads, the reels, the fake news, the online 'arguments', etc. I also limit my viewing time of mainstream news. I subscribe to Tuck Carlson, Epoch News, Dr. Robert Malone, and I see some Fox News. Even with media I feel I can trust, I do some of my own research. If anyone is looking for a good read, I am reading the Founder's Bible. It is pricey and you can't find it in a book store, but I bought it online, used and in good condition. I am learning a lot and find my thoughts more focused on God and how today parallels with Biblical times. I have always been a believer, but was disappointed in my church during COVID. I am so happy I found this book. (I know, it was off subject, but it has peaked my interest and it might yours too).
When I first started reading about AI it was upsetting. However, I knew it would happen because so many people do not consider the consequences. No stopping it now...so here we go.
"The picture assembled from these threads is not comfortable, but it is important to understand clearly. The AI systems that hundreds of millions of people use daily as neutral tools for information and assistance are simultaneously platforms that encode the values of their creators at enormous scale, potential targets for external manipulation by sophisticated adversaries, data collection instruments that feed into cognitive mapping at individual and population levels, and, increasingly, contested terrain in a geopolitical competition over who controls the cognitive domain."
So who was the High Priest? John, son of Zechariah? Or Caiphas?
The money market (moneychangers) will best serve us as the Medical/Industrial Complex of the time. The Book of Leviticus clearly describes the local ER and hospital was the Tabernacle or Temple.
I have little doubt most people do not understand the “reach” into one’s life that AI can have if allowed. While I use AI indirectly (almost impossible to ask Safari a question and not) I’m acutely aware that AI can easily be biased to any degree. Not sure comparing answers to any given combo of AI asks will help filter out that bias…but worth the try each time. It’s really the only defense a less sophisticated user (and perhaps Robert as well!) has against biased AI. One of the stoic concepts of superior intelligence is being skeptical about most everything and doing some serious homework. I’m sure that applies to the tools used to do that homework as well. Be weary, trust only to the level of confidence that what you get is verifiable…and even then be weary…mental 360 swivel on your head/brain.
I think we are already seeing burn-out. The drive to destroy truth is causing people to simply give up on finding or understanding truth. It does wear you out.
I'm not sure many realize that what we are witnessing here is the development of a mind, and to some extent a personalty, for each AI version being developed. The data it is trained on corresponds to its "experience." The boundaries installed amount to learned moral values. And the attempts to "poison" its data amounts to a technology most of us are unaware of, known as "electronic implants." With the right combination of bad experiences and implants, a mind / personality can be turned into a sociopath, if not a psychopath. Such a being willfully violates normal moral standards because it is convinced that its survival depends on doing so.
We are likely, then, to have the same problems with these "new" minds that we have with any others. And my most basic concern is that the people who are intimately working on creating these minds have little to no understanding of how a real mind is created, what it's for, what can go wrong with it, or how to repair it when it becomes damaged. In short, our ignorance about ourselves will be projected into these new minds / personalities that we are developing, which we hope will be so useful to us in extending our abilities to do good .... and evil.
Dr. Malone, I can't remember if you made reference to this man in either of your books. But I recently heard his name mentioned in an old video on Substack, and it was not the first time I came across it. He seems to have existed at the intersection of multiple present societal afflictions, and was relevant to subjects of your scholarship. Word of caution: This is pretty dark. But I do often wonder how such malice came to infest our government.
You can read about Aquino in Cathy O'Brien's book about her disturbing earlier life, Trance Formation of America: The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave.
I think, Sonia, this is the one you mentioned previously in the context of the Anneke Lucas interview (?) I probably should read that, though I do have a sense of trepidation about it.
Dr. Malone, I’m confused. My understanding on the Trump-Anthropic feud over “autonomous weapons targeting”, and “mass surveillance”, is different. As I understand it, this feud is being driven by the Administration’s demands for AI model transparency. Of great interest to me, I’m hearing that RFK Jr. has been in the forefront of pressing for this AI model transparency from these firms… ??!!
The claim that Trump officials “demanded Anthropic remove ethical restrictions” on autonomous weapons targeting was deliberately phrased to evoke dystopian imagery. As documented in various memos to Anthropic and other AI developers, the Administration has actually been asking for is access to audit and adjust model-decision logic in military contexts — particularly for defensive and aerospace systems.
The Pentagon and Space Force already use narrow AI tools for targeting assistance and threat prioritization. These systems must be transparent, auditable, and deterministic — not “ethical black boxes” that self-censor based on opaque alignment protocols written by civilian corporate ethicists.
Anthropic and similar firms, however, have inserted private, moral constraints into systems that military contractors use, meaning AI models potentially override human operators or suppress warnings from their own models if those outputs violate company values.
My overall understanding is that the Administration’s request to Anthropic and other AI models is not about removing restrictions for malicious ends. Weren’t they were about ending the monopolization of ethics by private corporations and reasserting democratic oversight of systems that already shape politics, media, and human cognition?
The media portrayal — “Trump wants to remove AI safety controls” — appears to invert reality.
I think the administration’s actual message was: No unelected corporate board should decide what 330 million Americans are allowed to think, read, or say.
I don’t fully understand AI, but have reservations about it. Not only are there concerns about propaganda, but those who rely on AI for information to organize and conclude information, risk losing their ability to think critically. For example, when gps came into reality, the use of maps went out the window. In a generation, how many people will be able to read a map. We lose the ability to think for ourselves and can be easily propagandized. Using it militarily is frightening.
"The relationship between humans and governance has shifted. While we believed we created tools to help make better decisions, we instead created a system where those who control the parameters control everything. The genius lies not in the automation, but in the invisibility of the programmers. When an SDG indicator triggers an automated response, it appears objective — a case of ‘following the science’.
But someone, somewhere, decided what numbers constitute a ‘crisis’ and what responses should activate when those thresholds are crossed. The computational inversion masks human control behind opaque, mathematical authority. The ship appears to fly itself, but someone pre-programmed the course corrections."
Not to diminish the very important subject matter being discussed here, but, did I miss the Big Reveal on ET? Nobody seems to have 'phoned home' or maybe my aluminum hat has gone off???
These various techniques of influencing targeted people have been going on forever, but with AI, they have new acronyms and it can happen much faster.
Now and always people who are not naturally inclined question and compare new data against their own experiences are the most easily influenced.
It's always been a weedom thing to look at all kinds of sources. So it's wild to see more and more people from disparate demographics and political leanings converging on the old Alex Jones, Infowars intro: "There's a war on for your mind!"
Alex knew / knows what he was talking about.
His style was not my favorite, but he has been vindicated on many counts.
Considering the group which was conducting lawfare against him caused me to become more attentive to what he was saying.
Thank you for this very informative detail on the realities and directions of AI. It sets out my concerns and well beyond.
I don't do Apple and have only very limited use of Windows 10. With Android the tentacles are palpable. Their efforts to discover are not imo confined to their AI apps.
Being forewarned is helpful. To me the next issue for those using AI is how to independantly acquire the knowledge base and grounding needed to adequately assess the validity of AI offerings.
The only (possibly flawed approach) possibly helpful strategy might be Brave/DuckDuckGo searchs for pubications relating to topics of concern. Maybe books. Maybe interviews. Maybe classes.
I'll be continue to learn and reflect via independant trusted sources on topics of my highest concerns. Thank heavens for you great Doctors help!
Your message is vital! Could even warrant a 2nd edition of PsyWars. I hope you can get it, its perspectives out far and wide!
Now, on to coping. Spring and time change on the horizon, along with more snow? :(
I no longer have social media accounts. I started letting them consume too much of my time: the pop up ads, the reels, the fake news, the online 'arguments', etc. I also limit my viewing time of mainstream news. I subscribe to Tuck Carlson, Epoch News, Dr. Robert Malone, and I see some Fox News. Even with media I feel I can trust, I do some of my own research. If anyone is looking for a good read, I am reading the Founder's Bible. It is pricey and you can't find it in a book store, but I bought it online, used and in good condition. I am learning a lot and find my thoughts more focused on God and how today parallels with Biblical times. I have always been a believer, but was disappointed in my church during COVID. I am so happy I found this book. (I know, it was off subject, but it has peaked my interest and it might yours too).
piqued
When I first started reading about AI it was upsetting. However, I knew it would happen because so many people do not consider the consequences. No stopping it now...so here we go.
This is mind blowing! Thanks Dr. Malone!
I am launching the Caiaphas Probe...
"What This Means for Ordinary People
"The picture assembled from these threads is not comfortable, but it is important to understand clearly. The AI systems that hundreds of millions of people use daily as neutral tools for information and assistance are simultaneously platforms that encode the values of their creators at enormous scale, potential targets for external manipulation by sophisticated adversaries, data collection instruments that feed into cognitive mapping at individual and population levels, and, increasingly, contested terrain in a geopolitical competition over who controls the cognitive domain."
This will be great!
First, get your bearings;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKqDx3RDCos&t=1309s
So who was the High Priest? John, son of Zechariah? Or Caiphas?
The money market (moneychangers) will best serve us as the Medical/Industrial Complex of the time. The Book of Leviticus clearly describes the local ER and hospital was the Tabernacle or Temple.
AI IS A TOOL. ONE THAT MUST NEVER BE ALLOWED TO OVERRIDE OUR LAWS AND CONSTITUTION.
Agree
YES, THIS ONE -- AI AS A MIRACLE SOLUTION, A NEW ATTACK, COULD BECOME VERY DANGEROUS. I think Trump likely senses this.
I have little doubt most people do not understand the “reach” into one’s life that AI can have if allowed. While I use AI indirectly (almost impossible to ask Safari a question and not) I’m acutely aware that AI can easily be biased to any degree. Not sure comparing answers to any given combo of AI asks will help filter out that bias…but worth the try each time. It’s really the only defense a less sophisticated user (and perhaps Robert as well!) has against biased AI. One of the stoic concepts of superior intelligence is being skeptical about most everything and doing some serious homework. I’m sure that applies to the tools used to do that homework as well. Be weary, trust only to the level of confidence that what you get is verifiable…and even then be weary…mental 360 swivel on your head/brain.
In other words, think for yourself
Well summarized but not a common trait it seems.
Vigilance. It requires a kind of mental energy. To always be wary will cause one to be weary.
I think we are already seeing burn-out. The drive to destroy truth is causing people to simply give up on finding or understanding truth. It does wear you out.
100% agree!
Signed,
Exhausted
One day AI and I will laugh about all this.
https://youtu.be/zXeQ3nK4hoM
Great articles, Drs MALONE!!
This reminds me of a meme I saw. Were you called delusional or a conspiracy theorist?? You may be due an apology…. 🤣😊
yes, not going to happen
👍😄
I'm not sure many realize that what we are witnessing here is the development of a mind, and to some extent a personalty, for each AI version being developed. The data it is trained on corresponds to its "experience." The boundaries installed amount to learned moral values. And the attempts to "poison" its data amounts to a technology most of us are unaware of, known as "electronic implants." With the right combination of bad experiences and implants, a mind / personality can be turned into a sociopath, if not a psychopath. Such a being willfully violates normal moral standards because it is convinced that its survival depends on doing so.
We are likely, then, to have the same problems with these "new" minds that we have with any others. And my most basic concern is that the people who are intimately working on creating these minds have little to no understanding of how a real mind is created, what it's for, what can go wrong with it, or how to repair it when it becomes damaged. In short, our ignorance about ourselves will be projected into these new minds / personalities that we are developing, which we hope will be so useful to us in extending our abilities to do good .... and evil.
Dr. Malone, I can't remember if you made reference to this man in either of your books. But I recently heard his name mentioned in an old video on Substack, and it was not the first time I came across it. He seems to have existed at the intersection of multiple present societal afflictions, and was relevant to subjects of your scholarship. Word of caution: This is pretty dark. But I do often wonder how such malice came to infest our government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Aquino
You can read about Aquino in Cathy O'Brien's book about her disturbing earlier life, Trance Formation of America: The True Life Story of a CIA Mind Control Slave.
I think, Sonia, this is the one you mentioned previously in the context of the Anneke Lucas interview (?) I probably should read that, though I do have a sense of trepidation about it.
Both reading it and the trepidation are justified.
Added to cart.
Dr. Malone, I’m confused. My understanding on the Trump-Anthropic feud over “autonomous weapons targeting”, and “mass surveillance”, is different. As I understand it, this feud is being driven by the Administration’s demands for AI model transparency. Of great interest to me, I’m hearing that RFK Jr. has been in the forefront of pressing for this AI model transparency from these firms… ??!!
The claim that Trump officials “demanded Anthropic remove ethical restrictions” on autonomous weapons targeting was deliberately phrased to evoke dystopian imagery. As documented in various memos to Anthropic and other AI developers, the Administration has actually been asking for is access to audit and adjust model-decision logic in military contexts — particularly for defensive and aerospace systems.
The Pentagon and Space Force already use narrow AI tools for targeting assistance and threat prioritization. These systems must be transparent, auditable, and deterministic — not “ethical black boxes” that self-censor based on opaque alignment protocols written by civilian corporate ethicists.
Anthropic and similar firms, however, have inserted private, moral constraints into systems that military contractors use, meaning AI models potentially override human operators or suppress warnings from their own models if those outputs violate company values.
My overall understanding is that the Administration’s request to Anthropic and other AI models is not about removing restrictions for malicious ends. Weren’t they were about ending the monopolization of ethics by private corporations and reasserting democratic oversight of systems that already shape politics, media, and human cognition?
The media portrayal — “Trump wants to remove AI safety controls” — appears to invert reality.
I think the administration’s actual message was: No unelected corporate board should decide what 330 million Americans are allowed to think, read, or say.
Thoughts?
I don’t fully understand AI, but have reservations about it. Not only are there concerns about propaganda, but those who rely on AI for information to organize and conclude information, risk losing their ability to think critically. For example, when gps came into reality, the use of maps went out the window. In a generation, how many people will be able to read a map. We lose the ability to think for ourselves and can be easily propagandized. Using it militarily is frightening.
"The relationship between humans and governance has shifted. While we believed we created tools to help make better decisions, we instead created a system where those who control the parameters control everything. The genius lies not in the automation, but in the invisibility of the programmers. When an SDG indicator triggers an automated response, it appears objective — a case of ‘following the science’.
But someone, somewhere, decided what numbers constitute a ‘crisis’ and what responses should activate when those thresholds are crossed. The computational inversion masks human control behind opaque, mathematical authority. The ship appears to fly itself, but someone pre-programmed the course corrections."
https://escapekey.substack.com/p/bait-and-switch
Not to diminish the very important subject matter being discussed here, but, did I miss the Big Reveal on ET? Nobody seems to have 'phoned home' or maybe my aluminum hat has gone off???
That happens (if it happens) later this year.