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The Rise of the Immortal Dictator: What Will AI Mean for Freedom and Government?

John & Nisha Whitehead

“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.

In tech speak, this point of no return is more aptly termed “singularity,” the point at which AI eclipses its human handlers and becomes all-powerful. Elon Musk has predicted that singularity could happen by 2026. AI scientist Ray Kurzweil imagines it happening it closer to 2045.

While the scientific community has a lot to say about the world-altering impact of artificial intelligence on every aspect of our lives, little has been said about its growing role in government and its oppressive effect on our freedoms, especially “the core democratic principles of privacy, autonomy, equality, the political process, and the rule of law.”

According to a report from Accenture, it is estimated that across both the public and private sectors, generative AI has the potential to automate a significant portion of jobs across various sectors.

Here’s a thought: what if Trump’s pledge to cut the federal work force isn’t really about eliminating government bureaucracy but outsourcing it to the AI tech sector?

Certainly, Trump has made no secret of his plans to make AI a priority. Indeed, Trump signed the first-ever Executive Order on AI in 2019. More recently, Trump issued an executive order giving the technology sector a green light to develop and deploy AI without any guardrails in place to limit the risks it might pose to U.S. national security, the economy, public health or safety.

President Biden was no better, mind you. His executive order, which Trump repealed, merely instructed the tech sector to share the results of AI safety tests with the U.S. government.

Yet following much the same pattern that we saw with the rollout of drones, while the government has been quick to avail itself of AI technology, it has done little to nothing to ensure that rights of the American people are protected.

Indeed, we are altogether lacking any guardrails for transparency, accountability and adherence to the rule of law when it comes to the government’s use of AI.

As Karl Manheim and Lyric Kaplan point out in a chilling article in the Yale Journal of Law & Technology about the risks to privacy and democracy posed by AI,

“[a]rtificial intelligence is the most disruptive technology of the modern era… Its impact is likely to dwarf even the development of the internet as it enters every corner of our lives… Advances in AI herald not just a new age in computing, but also present new dangers to social values and constitutional rights. The threat to privacy from social media algorithms and the Internet of Things is well known. What is less appreciated is the even greater threat that AI poses to democracy itself.”

Cue the rise of “digital authoritarianism” or “algocracy—rule by algorithm.”

In an algocracy, “Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai, CEOs of Facebook and Google, have more control over Americans’ lives and futures than do the representatives we elect.”

Digital authoritarianism, as the Center for Strategic and International Studies cautions, involves the use of information technology to surveil, repress, and manipulate the populace, endangering human rights and civil liberties, and co-opting and corrupting the foundational principles of democratic and open societies, “including freedom of movement, the right to speak freely and express political dissent, and the right to personal privacy, online and off.”

How do we protect our privacy against the growing menace of overreach and abuse by a technological sector working with the government?

The ability to do so may already be out of our hands.

In 2024, at least 37 federal government agencies ranging from the Departments of Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs to Health and Human Services reported more than 1700 uses of AI in carrying out their work, double from the year before. That does not even begin to touch on agencies that did not report their usage, or usage at the state and local levels.

Of those 1700 cases at the federal level, 227 were labeled rights- or safety-impacting.

A particularly disturbing example of how AI is being used by government agencies in rights- and safety-impacting scenarios comes from an investigative report by The Washington Post on how law enforcement agencies across the nation are using “artificial intelligence tools in a way they were never intended to be used: as a shortcut to finding and arresting suspects without other evidence.”

This is what is referred to within tech circles as “automation bias,” a tendency to blindly trust decisions made by powerful software, ignorant to its risks and limitations. In one particular case, police used AI-powered facial recognition technology to arrest and jail a 29-year-old man for brutally assaulting a security guard. It would take Christopher Gatlin two years to clear his name.

Gatlin is one of at least eight known cases nationwide in which police reliance on AI facial recognition software has resulted in resulted in wrongful arrests arising from an utter disregard for basic police work (such as checking alibis, collecting evidence, corroborating DNA and fingerprint evidence, ignoring suspects’ physical characteristics) and the need to meet constitutional standards of due process and probable cause. According to The Washington Post, “Asian and Black people were up to 100 times as likely to be misidentified by some software as White men.”

The numbers of cases in which AI is contributed to false arrests and questionable police work is likely much higher, given the extent to which police agencies across the country are adopting the technology and will only rise in the wake of the Trump Administration’s intent to shut down law enforcement oversight and policing reforms.

“How do I beat a machine?” asked one man who was wrongly arrested by police for assaulting a bus driver based on an incorrect AI match.

It is becoming all but impossible to beat the AI machine.

When used by agents of the police state, it leaves “we the people” even more vulnerable.

So where do we go from here?

For the Trump Administration, it appears to be full steam ahead, starting with Stargate, a $500 billion AI infrastructure venture aimed at building massive data centers. Initial reports suggest that the AI data centers could be tied to digital health records and used to develop a cancer vaccine. Of course, massive health data centers for use by AI will mean that one’s health records are fair game for any and all sorts of identification, tracking and flagging.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

The surveillance state, combined with AI, is creating a world in which there’s nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. We’re all presumed guilty until proven innocent now.

Thanks to the 24/7 surveillance being carried out by the government’s sprawling spy network of fusion centers, we are all just sitting ducks, waiting to be tagged, flagged, targeted, monitored, manipulated, investigated, interrogated, heckled and generally harassed by agents of the American police state.

Without having ever knowingly committed a crime or been convicted of one, you and your fellow citizens have likely been assessed for behaviors the government might consider devious, dangerous or concerning; assigned a threat score based on your associations, activities and viewpoints; and catalogued in a government database according to how you should be approached by police and other government agencies based on your particular threat level.

Before long, every household in America will be flagged as a threat and assigned a threat score.

It’s just a matter of time before you find yourself wrongly accused, investigated and confronted by police based on a data-driven algorithm or risk assessment culled together by a computer program run by artificial intelligence.

It’s a setup ripe for abuse.

Writing for the Yale Journal, Manheim and Kaplan conclude that “[h]umans may not be at risk as a species, but we are surely at risk in terms of our democratic institutions and values.”

Privacy­—Manheim and Kaplan succinctly describe it as “the right to make personal decisions for oneself, the right to keep one’s personal information confidential, and the right to be left alone are all ingredients of the fundamental right of privacy”— is especially at risk.

Indeed, with every new AI surveillance technology that is adopted and deployed without any regard for privacy, Fourth Amendment rights and due process, the rights of the citizenry are being marginalized, undermined and eviscerated.

We teeter on the cusp of a cultural, technological and societal revolution the likes of which have never been seen before.

AI surveillance is already re-orienting our world into one in which freedom is almost unrecognizable by doing what the police state lacks the manpower and resources to do efficiently or effectively: be everywhere, watch everyone and everything, monitor, identify, catalogue, cross-check, cross-reference, and collude.

As Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO remarked, “We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever… because there’s no delete button.

The ramifications of any government wielding such unregulated, unaccountable power are chilling, as AI surveillance provides the ultimate means of repression and control for tyrants and benevolent dictators alike.

Indeed, China’s social credit system, where citizens are assigned scores based on their behavior and compliance, offers a glimpse into this dystopian future.

This is not a battle against technology itself, but against its misuse. It’s a fight to retain our humanity, our dignity, and our freedom in the face of unprecedented technological power. It’s a struggle to ensure that AI serves us, not the other way around.

Faced with this looming threat, the time to act is now, before the lines between citizen and subject, between freedom and control, become irrevocably blurred.

The future of freedom depends on it.

So demand transparency. Demand accountability.

Demand an Electronic Bill of Rights that protects “we the people” from the encroaching surveillance state.

We need safeguards in place to ensure the right to data ownership and control (the right to know what data is being collected about them, how it’s being used, who has access to it, and the right to be “forgotten”); the right to algorithmic transparency (to understand how algorithms that affect them make decisions, particularly in areas like loan applications, job hiring, and criminal justice) and due process accountability; the right to privacy and data security, including restrictions on government and corporate use of AI-powered surveillance technologies, particularly facial recognition and predictive policing; the right to digital self-determination (freedom from automated discrimination based on algorithmic profiling) and the ability to manage and control one’s online identity and reputation; and effective mechanisms to seek redress for harms caused by AI systems.

AI deployed without any safeguards in place to protect against overreach and abuse, especially within government agencies, has the potential to become what Elon Musk described as an “immortal dictator,” one that lives forever and from which there is no escape.

Whatever you choose to call it—the police state, the Deep State, the surveillance state—this “immortal dictator” will be the future face of the government unless we rein it in now.

As I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People and in its fictional counterpart The Erik Blair Diaries, next year could be too late.

Constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead is founder and president of The Rutherford Institute. His book Battlefield America: The War on the American People (SelectBooks, 2015) is available online at www.amazon.com. Whitehead can be contacted at [email protected]. Nisha Whitehead is the Executive Director of The Rutherford Institute. Information about The Rutherford Institute is available at www.rutherford.org.

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Vagabard
Vagabard
Feb 5, 2025 7:31 PM

Dunno. Plenty of AI tools have already been dished out to Joe & Jane Public for free.

Maybe it’s the discrepancy between the systems the elites have access to and those that the plebeians have access to that matters more 🤔

Elongated Muskrat
Elongated Muskrat
Feb 5, 2025 5:40 AM

…And I thought AI was five hundred thousand quick typing Bangladeshis in a huge warehouse somewhere.

judith
judith
Feb 5, 2025 1:26 PM

No, that’s my United States Health Insurance call center.

Al Havermann
Al Havermann
Feb 4, 2025 5:52 PM

One thing to remember about AI is that humans still know how to swing aluminum baseball bats. I’ve watched several Boston Scientific videos testing their robotic dog. Mambee, pambee pushing the dog and watching the dog recover. Well, put me in that room with an aluminum baseball bat, I’d even settle for wood, and I’ll destroy that thing within ten minutes.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 4, 2025 10:12 PM
Reply to  Al Havermann

And the robotic dog with lasers and machine guns?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 5, 2025 3:51 AM
Reply to  Thom Crewz

“Everybody has a plan, until they get a punch in the face”, (M. Tyson).
I guess that goes for robotic dogs with lasers and machine guns too  😅 .

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Feb 4, 2025 3:37 PM

Trump and Musk are closing down USAID, long the corrupt finance tool and vital camouflage of the CIA/deep state, responsible for funding such humanitarian enterprises as the creation of C19 at Wuhan and elsewhere. Democrats and leftist bureaucrats (fundamental parts of the oppressive, parasitic US state) are going berserk. How do these current events support tired claims that Trump is part of the deep state, rather than its nemesis?

Big Al
Big Al
Feb 5, 2025 1:37 AM

Look at what he said about Gaza during today’s visit with yahoo, Anyone who looks at that and isn’t appalled is either a zionist or doesn’t have much of a brain.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 5, 2025 3:54 AM

Trump also signed an executive order to stop radical leftist bs indoctrination in children’s schools. More anger coming.

judith
judith
Feb 5, 2025 1:32 PM

And do you really think the CIA and deep state are worrying about this?

Do you really think USAID is their only tool and camouflage?

Democrats and bureacrats are not going beserk. They are pretending to go beserk. Part of the script.

Trump was chosen. He would not be there if he was not chosen.

So he’s closing down USAID. But still no apology or acknowledgment of the lives lost and injured by his Operation Warp Speed. He’s still besties with Netanyahu.

How about closing down AIPAC, and all of the lobbying arms in Washington DC. ?

Now THAT would have democrats, republicans and bureaucrats of all ilk really going beserk.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Feb 4, 2025 1:18 PM

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.

My guess is that Trump has been hired by the deep state – the Jewish super-oligarch families and a few white families – to rape the USA, stealing all available government money, while getting rid of the trivialities in order to keep the plebs distracted; trivialities such as child sex changes, immigration, DEI, transgender, climate change whatever. These issues have been pushed like crazy by the deep state media, they have been pushed in a balck/white way, with the intention of dividing the country, created to divert peoples’ emotions. The destruction of these policies by Trump give him considerable good will and will act as cover for the theft he is enacting at this very moment. Note also that Trump’s right hand man is the unelected Musk, so this is also a destruction of democracy … not that that is a bad thing, given how democracy spreads corruption throughout the world, it is about time it died.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 3:36 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

It is legal to say there are two genders again.

And we’re celebrating that as a win. Celebrating! How did we get to this?

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 4, 2025 4:52 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

Ideological subversion techniques.
Already in 1984 Yuri Bezmenov, KGB defector, told about what was going on. Be careful to think only KGB was responsible, both sides did and still do it.
Why controlling the MSM? Thats why! https://yandex.ru/video/preview/4393205951233073592 Yuri Bezmenov.

Elongated Muskrat
Elongated Muskrat
Feb 5, 2025 2:46 AM
Reply to  Jonathan

The law and all our institutions are as flakey as we are…

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 9:49 AM

For those who are interested, Dissident Voice is back online.

Like Off G, there are some thoughtful pieces by thoughtful writers.

les online
les online
Feb 4, 2025 9:32 AM

You can learn a lot about how criminal minds work by watching The Telly,
though bear in mind some of it is the product of creative licence…

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 8:02 AM

A more optimistic view of a possible future:

https://winteroak.org.uk/2025/02/04/on-globalism-and-immigration/

red lester
red lester
Feb 4, 2025 3:12 PM
Reply to  Johnny

A messy essay from an ‘Englishman living in France’ not a Brit trying to compete for a crap UK job. The detached always conflate immigrants [good and bad self motivated people] with immigration [a process which govs, who have no interest in the populace, allow to destroy the place – because people like ‘Rachel from accounts’ think it adds up].
I have met plenty of immigrants who think UK immigration is ridiculous.

edwige
edwige
Feb 4, 2025 8:16 PM
Reply to  red lester

Very good. Very good. This is the whole point that is utterly incomprehensible to pro-immigrationists. They can’t tell the forest from the trees. You might know a find, decent, upstanding, hard-working immigrant family. And they are fine and well. But immigration destroys cultures, lowers wages, raises rents, causes housing shortages, disrupts communities, and prevents any possibility of organization or unionization or solidarity. Forest and trees. Immigration vs. immigrants.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 9:51 PM
Reply to  red lester

What, no immigrants in France?

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 3:44 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Interesting pic they used to illustrate pure Britishness. Tescos, founded by Jack Cohen in Hackney, London, in 1919.
comment image

proxi
proxi
Feb 4, 2025 3:51 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

 Cohen, pure Britishness a name…   :wpds_wink: 

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 4, 2025 5:00 PM
Reply to  proxi

Silverstein, Goldstein, Copperstein, David, Goliath, Samuel Jones, whatever.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 4, 2025 10:15 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

You missed out Frankenstein.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 4, 2025 4:58 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Very fine article from Paul Cudenac. Thanks.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 4, 2025 7:15 AM

China’s social credit system
Time to stop lying. Local governments in China do track unruly psychos, but a national system or punishments based on low “scores” is Western delirium or propaganda.

antonym
antonym
Feb 4, 2025 7:29 AM
Reply to  mgeo

They track any thoughts or colors or words that don’t conform to the CPC’s dictum, under the flag of “corruption”.
If they really tracked unruly psychos, half the CPC & PLA cadres would be locked up, not to mention financial scam artists.

Raoullo
Raoullo
Feb 4, 2025 9:45 AM
Reply to  antonym

When was the last time you set foot on Chinese soil to find out what they’re doing there? It’s getting tiresome to see geniuses projecting their own societal stigma onto the people.

antonym
antonym
Feb 4, 2025 10:25 AM
Reply to  Raoullo

When was the last time you set foot on US soil Xiao to find out what they’re doing there? It’s getting tiresome to see geniuses projecting their own societal stigma onto the people.

Balance of articles on US vs China here on Off G = 99% – 1%, nothing to worry about here comrade.

the US is (was?) the biggest bully around true, but why leap from the frying pan in the fire?
In the field of straight opemly lying no one beats the CPC though.

underground poet
underground poet
Feb 4, 2025 10:53 AM
Reply to  antonym

Beware of Russians hiding behind mirrors.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Feb 4, 2025 1:24 PM
Reply to  antonym

Nonsense. The problem with the CPC is getting them to say anything, unlike the Trump who has a dogshit opinion on everything.

Howard
Howard
Feb 4, 2025 4:12 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

And Trump never cleans up his dogshit opinion – just leaves it lying for others to step in or pick it up if they don’t like it.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 4, 2025 10:17 PM
Reply to  antonym

Bullshit.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 11:08 AM
Reply to  mgeo

I’m pretty sure it’s Chinese propaganda that told me about their social credit system.

But it’s theoretically possible the West produced it. We can’t be certain of anything.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Feb 4, 2025 1:26 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

The social credit score has never existed in China, although there have been bans on certain people, the most common used to be people who refused not to smoke on aircraft, the CCP banned them from flying for, I think, five years. For the rest of us, that was good news, for morons in the west that was persecution.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 3:55 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

“The social credit score has never existed”

Well now you’ve lost all credibility. It exists, even if we can argue about what it is exactly.

Like I said, we can’t be certain of anything, but the probability of it being a complete fiction is near zero.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 4, 2025 5:07 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

Smokers have also rights. You green holy mineral water freaks cant have it all.
If I wanna smoke 30 Cecil on my flight that I paid for, I have my human rights to do so.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Feb 4, 2025 7:52 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

No, you don’t. You agree with whatever the airline rules are by buying a ticket. If you don’t agree with their rules, you are free not to buy a ticket.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 5, 2025 3:58 AM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

;-).

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Feb 4, 2025 3:40 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

Isn’t your last claim self-contradictory?

proxi
proxi
Feb 4, 2025 3:51 PM
Reply to  mgeo

it happens in the west, called being poor.

underground poet
underground poet
Feb 5, 2025 2:08 AM
Reply to  proxi

At the same time though in the west, poverty sucks.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 4, 2025 5:02 PM
Reply to  mgeo

We have the right to free speech against China’s suppression of women, trans and LGTB green equality rights!

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 5:49 AM
Sonny-Raye Hayes
Sonny-Raye Hayes
Feb 4, 2025 3:53 AM

Excellent piece; but I take issue with the use of the term “Artificial Intelligence” as well the notion that the machines make “decisions” . As soon as we adopt the language of the propagandists we endanger our own human consciousness and awareness, especially if we use the terms the machines come to produce and replicate. Pull the plug on digital machines by refusing to think and speak in techno promo terms.

Albert Anderson
Albert Anderson
Feb 4, 2025 4:56 AM

Word.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Feb 4, 2025 1:29 PM

The machines do make decisions, that is the attraction of AI, read up a bit more about it. Unlike algorithms, the decision making is the attraction of AI. From a business perspective, as long as a certain majority of decisions are advantageous, the business will thrive. There will be bad decisions, but the statistical processing of AI will ensure a certain bias towards advantageous decisions.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 5, 2025 6:26 AM
Reply to  aspnaz

The main attraction is the option to deflect responsibility to AI for blunders. Such decision-making is not new. It has been entrenched in the military, courts, job recruitment, loan applications, etc. for over 10 years. Here, it seems impolite to identify the victims; ask around.

Big Al
Big Al
Feb 4, 2025 3:50 AM

Personally, I don’t like AI because every time I see it, I think it’s my name. Plus, if AI gets a bad name, then so do I. Plus, I don’t even know how to use my cell phone, so I hate to be associated with AI in any way. In conclusion, I think AI sucks and it’s going to kill us all, or at least take away whatever freedom we have left. But I agree with this from the authors:

“Demand an Electronic Bill of Rights that protects “we the people” from the encroaching surveillance state.”

I hereby Demand an Electronic Bill of Rights. Fuck the Surveillance State! There, that’s one. Who’s with me?

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 3:54 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Don’t sweat it Big Al.
They’re just little Al.

Albert Anderson
Albert Anderson
Feb 4, 2025 4:42 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Oh, you’re just saying that because your name is johnny, you don’t have to live with this, man.

On a serious note, on the one hand I’m glad I’m old. On the other hand, I have kids and grandkids.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 8:53 AM

I too am old Albert.
Gonna miss the fireworks of Future Shock.

Albert Anderson
Albert Anderson
Feb 4, 2025 4:44 AM
Reply to  Johnny

P.S. I have two computers I use and somehow the names got screwed up. I guess I wasn’t paying enough attention when I set up the newer computer.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 11:13 AM
Reply to  Big Al

Bill of Rights?

My friend William Wright is getting sick of this mockery.

jubal hershaw
jubal hershaw
Feb 4, 2025 1:20 AM

President Trump is not stupid. He knows the Iranian hit teams, and other foreign hit teams that infiltrated the US with the goal of assassinating him, are still in the US.
President Trump know the Iranians want revenge for him ordering the assassination of their beloved Qasem Soleimani. President Trump knows that they are just biden their time, waiting for the opportunity to take him out.
President Trump has ordered the removal of the protective security of such betrayers as John Bolton, John Brennen etal, hoping the would be assassins will settle for such lesser mortals.
Though President Trump now has beefed up protections against foreign assassins, he knows the real threat to his life will come from the very agencies sworn to protect him.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 2:19 AM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

Trump may not be stupid in the traditional sense, but he is a loose cannon with loose lips (Strewth, a double sailing metaphor) and a greed focussed twat.

Those Iranian sharpshooters will need to upsKILL if they’re gonna have more success than the last wannabe assassin.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Feb 4, 2025 1:37 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Trump is a thug, he is prepared to do things that most of us would not do, hence he is feared. He has a similar reputation in Scotland, where he built at least one golf course, then refused to pay the contractors, the story being that it was cheaper to fight them in court than to pay them. A thug; you so not have to be clever to succeed as a thug.

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Feb 4, 2025 3:43 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

That Trump is dumb is a truly brilliant comment.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Feb 4, 2025 7:59 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

In that scenario, you should send the bulldozers back in to ruin his golf course. Completely ruin it. Return it to the state at the start of the contract.

Love to see Trump’s lawyers claim in court that not paying contractors is ‘the rule of law’…..lawyers need cross examining every bit as mjuch as witnesses.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 9:55 PM
Reply to  Rhys Jaggar

That, I would like to see.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 3:59 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Hell will be cold enough to freeze the balls on a brass monkey before I resort to using a sailing metaphor.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 9:57 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

Now I’m all at sea.
Guess I’ll have to wait for my ship to come in.

Jerry Alatalo
Jerry Alatalo
Feb 4, 2025 11:41 AM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

President Trump knows this … President Trump knows that …

With all due respect, jubal, people around the world can know one thing for certain: Nobody will ever see the forensic/medical photographs taken of Donald Trump’s “Bullet-lacerated right ear”.

The photographic evidence does not exist.

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Feb 4, 2025 8:00 PM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

Politics is after all a career for thespians, special effects teams and Hollywood scriptwriters.

underground poet
underground poet
Feb 5, 2025 2:12 AM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

It was bandaged and he was under no obligation to publically document the healing.

People believe what they want to believe, and you are no exception.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Feb 4, 2025 1:34 PM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

President Trump is a front man, all POTUS’s are front men, they represent the people who put them in that position. In Trump’s case, alot of Jewish money plus a few hundred million of Musk money, which I suspect is Jewish money, given his affiliation with the Jews and his ready access to enormous credit, yet no real back story to explain why he is where he is. The USA has always been an oligarchy pretending to be a democracy, the difference now is that it is becoming an oligarchy actually being an oligarchy, a bit like the final years of the USSR. Putin must be looking on and understanding everything that is happening.

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Feb 4, 2025 3:54 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

I know leftists are invariably internationalists who hate their own nations and history, no matter how rich they are. It’s also clear that leftist ‘principles’ can trump their love of money-grubbing, as shown by Soros and his ilk. Doesn’t this suggest that anti-leftist billionaires may also put principles before profits.? For example, the patriotism which leftists so fear and loathe?

Rhys Jaggar
Rhys Jaggar
Feb 4, 2025 8:02 PM
Reply to  aspnaz

It was the first 10 years of Russia that was the golden age of oligarchy over there – Yeltsin was fed vodka, then passed oligarch-designed ‘measures’ to sanction.

Putin came in a decade after the USSR ceased to exist.

underground poet
underground poet
Feb 5, 2025 2:16 AM
Reply to  aspnaz

64 people recently died on an aircraft trying to land in DC, how much more proof does one need to see where we are today in time, its very late indeed i’m telling you.

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Feb 4, 2025 3:42 PM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

If Trump openly sided with Palestinians and Muslims against genocide and colonization by the Israelis, how would his Zionist friends react?

Big Al
Big Al
Feb 4, 2025 4:04 PM
Reply to  jubal hershaw

Sounds like hasbara propaganda. What proof is there that Iran has sent “hit teams” to the U.S. to assassinate the dim witted Trump? I know, there is none.

Kalen
Kalen
Feb 4, 2025 1:07 AM

What’s shocking that there is so little opposition to imposing AI authority over people. As long as AI is assigned neither authority nor credibility or infallibility but solely advising role danger of enslaving people is not as huge or imminent although still eminent.

However the real problem is that people surrender their moral autonomy that gives them unalienable right/responsibility to investigate reality in order to draw conclusions by themselves and deny themselves moral authority of ethical judgment of such conclusions in context of our humanity.

If people totally blindly resign themselves to human authority they will easily embrace AI authority as by either they abandon their own moral autonomy and authority.

So it’s not AI technology that must be targeted but any attempts to give it authority that overrides human authority and any credibility that overrides human credibility which we know is fallible and which essentially what makes us human.

For example AI face recognition of a suspect should have no more perhaps less legal weight than suspect identification by a witness which testimony we know may be mistaken or deceiving. So AI should be assigned such deceiving quality as well simply because it’s based on statistical models producing not accurate but approximate outcomes within defined margin of error.

And please stop using term Artificial intelligence (just AI technology) as after three thousand years of philosophy trying to define it we still don’t know what human intelligence really is.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 3:31 AM
Reply to  Kalen

An oxymoron for sure.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 4, 2025 7:21 AM
Reply to  Kalen

Before the AI scam, the human equivalent – profilers – were also proven to be duds.

Howard
Howard
Feb 4, 2025 4:36 PM
Reply to  Kalen

By saying AI technology is only bad if used for authority (or any other nefarious purpose), you’re evoking the argument that it’s how something is used that determines its moral standing. But if something can only be used for evil, then the argument loses all credibility. A nuclear weapon is such, as is empire.

When the US became an empire – roughly after World War I – it ceased having any moral credibility. An empire cannot by its very nature be used for anything but conquest and exploitation – because nothing else will sustain it.

Similarly, AI can never be used for anything but surveillance and authority. There is no other possible use for it.

edwige
edwige
Feb 4, 2025 8:25 PM
Reply to  Howard

Depends how you define it, but most historians say the US became an empire with McKinley and the Spanish American War.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 4, 2025 5:46 PM
Reply to  Kalen

Objection.
YOU dont know what human intelligence is, I and others do. There is Real human Intelligence and there is False Artificial Intelligence.

Why Artificial Intelligence is a very precise and due word = False Artificial Intelligence.

You are artificial plastic Lolita Dolls, artificial plastic Dildos, and you are artificial plastic Intelligence, artificial smiles and natural smiles, and you have artificial plastic ID and you have your real personal true ID.

You are confused darling.

Kalen
Kalen
Feb 4, 2025 7:03 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

You are hysterical my friend. You are absolutely sure of your unique genius to know things. That a sign of ignorance. Socrates said that the only one thing man can be really sure of is his own ignorance. A sign of highest intelligence is to recognize that fact. After many millennia of philosophy what makes people to recognize and acknowledge their ignorance is still unknown.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 5, 2025 4:13 AM
Reply to  Kalen

What you and Socrates call ignorance is a man’s cognitive dissonance for what he doesnt want to see.
Most western people I meet say the do believe, everything is relative, depending….whats comes up.

But even Einstein said his relativity theory was misunderstood by most.

The physical laws in the real world cant be doubted. They are definitive.

The golden ratio is definitive, the water’s cycle is definitive, Pythagoras geometrical findings were definitive, our colour scale is definitive, 2+2=4 is definitive, two different genders are one unit is definitive, a.s.o., a.s.o.

Real human Intelligence is when you connect your senses to cosmos. False/artificial Intelligence is when you connect your mind to IoT and AI and doubt everything.
Because there isnt even a single true conclusion inside this rigid primitive illusion and dream world called AI. Thats why it really is the right label.

les online
les online
Feb 4, 2025 12:05 AM

The Australian government is to introduce more laws against ‘hate speech’ in
response to a recent orchestrated campaign* against Australia’s special protected minority… The government wants Australians to believe the orchestrated campaign
is being carried out by local miscreants who are being paid by sinister foreign agents…
One online site suggests the sinister overseas agent’s operating motto is “By
Deception Thou Shalt Wage War”…There may be something to that…
So far no mention has been made that the law will also be used to clamp down on
‘hate speech’ against non-Jewish Semites…
Maybe ‘ all Semites are equal, but some Semites are more equal than others’ ?

https://cairnsnews.org/2025/01/26/is-mossad-the-key-to-foreign-money-link-to-attacks-on-synagogues/

** Mainly spray-painting swastika on cars and walls of the special protected minority…
*** The ‘foreign-money-link’ is only believed to exist, but if ever it is proven to exist, hopefully the foreign paymaster is not Sherlock Holmes’ Moriarty, whom already
carries enough blame. Sherlock just wont accept Moriarty isnt behind all that is sinister and dastardly…

Michael
Michael
Feb 4, 2025 3:15 AM
Reply to  les online

“It is important that people understand where some of these attacks are coming from and it would appear … that some … are being perpetrated by people who don’t have a particular issue, aren’t motivated by an ideology, but are paid actors.”
This statement by Albanese is about the only remotely sensible thing that has issued from the guy’s mouth in his whole career in politics.
In fact for AnAl to make such sense it’s fair to suggest he’s been briefed by an entity in the know and is reading from a prepared statement.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 11:23 AM
Reply to  Michael

Obviously Albanese is telling the truth about what is being done, but will lie about who the paid actors are.

The best propaganda is at least 90% true.

(That’s something the UK govt has forgotten. The infantile drivel we get here post-2020 is just embarrassing. We can’t even take pride in our national lies any more.)

les online
les online
Feb 4, 2025 3:22 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

‘The best propaganda is at least 90% true’ is what
propagandists want you to think…

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Feb 4, 2025 3:57 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

I chuckled, then wondered which lies might ever merit feelings of pride.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 10:09 PM

Dishonest propaganda might be legitimate / necessary in wartime to prevent panic, boost morale, etc.

But we’re in a proxy war with Russia right now and UK propaganda has zero credibility, hence zero benefits. It just makes the UK look evil and stupid. Which it is, but they shouldn’t advertise the fact.

mgeo
mgeo
Feb 4, 2025 7:27 AM
Reply to  les online

When the “security agencies” fail to link a stooge to other “evil-doers”, they say he has “self-radicalised”.

antonym
antonym
Feb 4, 2025 7:33 AM
Reply to  les online

Mohamad = Voldemort, He who should not be named.

Funnily it is quite easy to survive naming Jahweh.

Semites, lost tribes the lot.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 3, 2025 10:32 PM
Michael
Michael
Feb 3, 2025 10:28 PM

AI will be the new belief system. Replacing religion. Or being the new religion. Whatever we prefer.
After a certain percentage of people are bluffed by it seeming omniscience new scriptures will be written, prophets will appear, and maybe a saviour on a donkey to psy-op the doubting Thomases into followers.
Then the programmers can say whatever they like and we will bow, kneel and wave our arms in obedience while singing, Hallelujah. Just like the GWT disciples do now.
This is the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the age of Aquariass, Aquariarse …

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 3, 2025 11:15 PM
Reply to  Michael

Belief systems need a Messiah or a Deity.
Jesus, God, Buddha, Mohammed, Vishnu, Mammon etc.
Some-One to worship or aspire too.

Al, or ‘limitless’ information cannot provide that. Besides, if the power goes off, Al is dead.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 4, 2025 1:20 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Belief systems need a Messiah or a Deity

Musk. And once people are chipped and dehumanized they will no longer feel the need for a God.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 1:33 AM
Reply to  Thom Crewz

They’ve been chipping dogs for years. The chips move.

Only the gullible will fall for it, and since so many Covidians have fallen ill, getting Folks to accept Chips will be a hard sell.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 2:47 AM
Reply to  Johnny

If only the chips going into us were merely a unique ID number, like RFID does. That would almost be tolerable.

Instead they want an entire database about us stored there, including of course all aspects of our social credit status. To be presented on demand. Horrific.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 4, 2025 3:13 AM
Reply to  Johnny

At present they don’t need chips in humans when the gullible are happy to be tracked on their cell phone and devices in their vehicles.

Going forward it might a choice of either accepting the mark of the beast or starvation.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 4:35 AM
Reply to  Thom Crewz

The ‘Mark of the Beast’?

I call them tattoos 😜

les online
les online
Feb 4, 2025 2:17 AM
Reply to  Michael

The idea that ‘viruses’ existed and were the cause of many diseases began
to take root around the time it was claimed “God Is Dead !” ‘Viruses’, like God,
are said to work in strange and mysterious ways. Already it has been said
the inner workings of AI – the ‘mind of AI’ like ‘the mind of God’ – are mysterious…

Note: There’s been no authoritative declaration that that other character who
works in strange and mysterious way, Satan (aka – The Devil), is Dead; no obit
claiming “Satan Is Dead !” (Can there be one without the other ?)

I_left_the_left
I_left_the_left
Feb 4, 2025 3:59 PM
Reply to  les online

Has any AI disputed the existence of viruses yet?

Ort
Ort
Feb 4, 2025 7:09 PM
Reply to  les online

Well, there’s this. (I fear it will be pended into oblivion because of censor-triggering words that I can’t bring myself to bowdlerize; c’est la vie!) 👿 :

Jehovah buried,Satan dead,

do fearers worship Much and Quick;

badness not being felt as bad,

itself thinks goodness what is meek;

obey says toc,submit says tic,

Eternity’s a Five Year Plan:

if Joy with Pain shall hand in hock

who dares to call himself a man?

go dreamless knaves on Shadows fed,

your Harry’s Tom,your Tom is Dick;

while Gadgets murder squack and add,

the cult of Same is all the chic;

by instruments,both span and spic,

are justly measured Spic and Span:

to kiss the mike if Jew turn kike

who dares to call himself a man?

loudly for Truth have liars pled,

their heels for Freedom slaves will click;

where Boobs are holy,poets mad,

illustrious punks of Progress shriek;

when Souls are outlawed,Hearts are sick,

Hearts being sick,Minds nothing can:

if Hate’s a game and Love’s a fuck

who dares to call himself a man?

King Christ,this world is all aleak;

and lifepreservers there are none:

and waves which only He may walk

Who dares to call Himself a man.

— e e cummings (1935)

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 10:02 PM
Reply to  Ort

A classic.

les online
les online
Feb 4, 2025 9:49 AM
Reply to  Michael

There’s very little love in The Old testament,
it seems mainly to be about begetting, and revenge
(and lotsa smiting)…

orlando biscuitio
orlando biscuitio
Feb 3, 2025 10:14 PM

i might be one of the most cynical people ever… but even I feel like y’all really have lost control of whatever intellectual faculties you may have once had. give it a rest already!

  :wpds_neutral:    :wpds_neutral:    :wpds_silly: 

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 2:57 AM

Yeah, give it a rest. Just because this technology can be used to create a total surveillance state that controls and abuses us 24/7, it doesn’t mean our governments will do so.

Be nice to your government. Give them a chance to prove how much they respect us. Nay, love us! We are truly blessed to have such caring leaders. Don’t be mean to them.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 3, 2025 9:49 PM

I don’t know much about how AI operates… but can it truly generate original content? Or does it simply disassemble, then reassemble bits and pieces to come up with something new – i.e. synthetic art, plagiarised texts, ….?

I still think we have more to fear from the living beings, whatever “they” are, who are driving us towards this artificial world than any computer. Just like we need not fear the gun, but the mindset of the human who operates it.

In Australia we, as a culture, are so far removed from ever addressing the causes that there are now moves to ban knife sales to under 18 year olds because of the knife attacks that have been occurring in some sections of society of late. When any steak knife from home would do the same job, and instead of taking a closer look at who we let into the country … and why. 

We need an urgent solution to how we can rid ourselves of these human and non-human parasites that are enforcing all of the smart machinery.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 12:17 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Wise words Veri Tas.

Creativity is such a random, unpredictable thing that even the creators themselves will tell you they don’t know how, or why it happens.

As for knives, a heavy, easily accessed object like a rock or a hammer are far more dangerous than a knife.

Thom Crewz
Thom Crewz
Feb 4, 2025 1:29 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

I don’t know much about how AI operates

LLM requires input then spews out predictions based on that input.
But it takes fine tuning to get it right.

and instead of taking a closer look at who we let into the country … and why.

Psyops to terrorize the population. All by design.

kara
kara
Feb 3, 2025 9:41 PM

Great piece. I’ve also seen a lot people worry about AI becoming sentient or quasi-sentient, you know like in the movies. But that is because they have been misinformed about how thinking works, how our brains work. It is common for people to see thinking and intellectual sentience being similar to how a computer works, therefore it is not a leap for them to think a computer-based AI can become sentient and think. The truth is that the brain is not the same as the mind, for example Nikolai Tesla believed the brain did not process information, that it is a type of receiver, like say a TV, that a brain receives information processed from outside the physical 3-dimensioal realm. See Intelligence Is Not Biological

aspnaz
aspnaz
Feb 4, 2025 1:49 PM
Reply to  kara

For many, the reproduction of human thinking in an AI environment is a way fo discovering some real facts, rather than feelings, about how the human brain may work.

les online
les online
Feb 3, 2025 9:05 PM

The schoolyard bully defended his actions, claiming he was not
bullying but was using muscular enforcement, ‘muscular’ like people
were calling Trump’s foreign policy…
He still got punished by the school’s head state-functionary (aka –
schoolmaster) on the grounds that, while bullying muscular enforcement
was essential to the system’s functioning, he was not a state-authorised
bully muscular enforcer…

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 3, 2025 9:45 PM
Reply to  les online

You are highlighting the hypocrisy in our system of legitimised murder and other violence vs illegal murder and violence.

Wirralinittogether
Wirralinittogether
Feb 3, 2025 8:57 PM

All knowing ChatGPT Artificial Intelligence reliably told me my ship – HMS Yarmouth – had been struck by an Exocet missile during the Falklands War.

https://wirralinittogether.blog/2024/06/19/a-question-on-quora-shows-how-chatgpt-is-futile-worthless-dangerous-bollocks-%f0%9f%98%b3/

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 9:19 PM

If you believe it, its the truth for you and ChatGPT. Your truth which you share together!

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 3, 2025 9:48 PM

Yet, as is mentioned in the article with the example of the wrongful arrest of Christopher Gatlin, this is precisely the danger of wide-scale reliance on AI.

Vagabard
Vagabard
Feb 5, 2025 7:26 PM

ChatGPT got it right about HMS Yarmouth when last I asked it. Maybe it got its updates. So AI remains mankind’s best friend (the dog being long usurped).

Still, ask it which poem a particular stanza appears in (if vaguely obscure or foreign) and it may still struggle. Or where a particular song appears in a movie. The human tendency to “wing it” lives on in AI (to be charitable). Probability triumphing over certainty?

What I had for breakfast and the particular clothes I’m currently wearing also seems to be beyond its current remit. Long may it stay that way

Ronald
Ronald
Feb 3, 2025 8:43 PM

Yes, AI is a magnificent thing.
Sadly it is as bound as we are.
We we are free, so too is all else.
It seems we ought free ourselves from ourselves. Perhaps we can then free ourselves from other stuff….

David
David
Feb 3, 2025 6:03 PM

What happens if the globalised, highly complex, ‘just in time’ industrial society we built starting in about 1750 falls apart at a similar rate to the increase in the dystopian capability of the average nation-state (its theoretical computing power)?

On the likelihood of some form of collapse, sorry ‘simplification’, see, e.g. Prof. Jem Bendell’s 2023 book ‘Breaking together: a freedom-loving approach to collapse’ or Nate Hagens’ website ‘The great simplification’. Or follow blogs by people such as John M Greer, James Kunstler, Gail or Tim Morgan.

John Greer said in 2012 ‘Collapse now and avoid the rush’.

sandy
sandy
Feb 3, 2025 5:51 PM

We already have enough within the constitution to control deployment of any technology, any censorship, any surveillance if appropriately applied to protect society. But it has not. The wealthy elite who own politicians and government use the law, including the constitution, as a discretionary weapon to thwart opposition or to punish anyone even considering public authority to decide the governing of society. AI doesn’t change this. It merely allows obedient managers, at the workplace, in government agencies, in education and in communications to flywheel accelerate the inherent paranoid obsessions of the rich to treat Humanity like serf peons. AI allows them to become remote control puppet masters, with plausible deniability for harm offloaded to AI. We can see “acceptable collateral damage” assessments being applied to all facets of society, as if they can excuse implementation of digital fascism as better than not using it. Which we all know to be a lie.

– Stop participating with authoritarian policies.

– Daily, express non-consent, identifying to ruling entities what policies must be stopped.

– Daily, express what policies must be implemented instead.

– Work together locally to inform, discuss and design what will make a now and future, we determine for ourselves.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 3, 2025 5:47 PM

Going from Deep State to Deep Thought.

We are clearly already at the point where these insanely complex systems cannot be properly programmed. They need to be watched, and when the output is undesired extra nudge rules must be added, making the system more complex still.

When we stop monitoring the output – and all that takes is the natural inclination to laziness – we are doomed.

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mgeo
mgeo
Feb 4, 2025 7:40 AM
Reply to  Jonathan

These systems are not programmed. A lot of plagiarised info. is shoveled into them. If they produce politically incorrect answers, some guard rails are added.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 11:38 AM
Reply to  mgeo

You’re talking about a specific kind of AI, which is essentially just a search engine presenting aggregated data in a human-like way. Although it’s based on big data rather than any attempt at “thinking”, it does this using algorithms which are programmed.

Howard
Howard
Feb 3, 2025 3:40 PM

For starters, threats to “democracy” will have to stand in line – and it’s a long long line so AI may not be able to get a crack at it for another millennium.

As to freedom, privacy and other quaint ancient relics, everything about everyone is already known and is already digitally stored in the “Cloud” and elsewhere. That is, until the entire grid goes down, then it’s bye bye booty.

As a side note (perhaps someone has already mentioned it but it’s worth repeating): Israel has put its AI to the task of helping spread its propaganda more effectively across social media. Well, it seems AI, in its research, discovered that Israel was committing war crimes galore – and said so publicly. Oops!

And that’s the point, isn’t it? The best laid plans can go awry when you give the latest Hoola Hoop leave to do whatever it pleases.

Howard
Howard
Feb 3, 2025 4:02 PM
Reply to  Howard

BTW, here’s a video about Israel’s faux pas.



Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 3, 2025 5:50 PM
Reply to  Howard

Oy vey! Our golem is antisemitic! Shut it down!

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 6:30 AM
Reply to  Jonathan

An uncanny resemblance.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 9:34 PM
Reply to  Howard

Freedom is just another word for nothing left to loose. Janis Joplin https://youtu.be/OTHRg_iSWzM .
Israel’s AI has nothing left to loose, it is Israel’s last sell out.

aspnaz
aspnaz
Feb 4, 2025 1:50 PM
Reply to  Howard

Democracy is corruption; show me one sensible democracy that is not totally corrupt.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 3:33 PM

“Power is only power if you recognizes it” (Mao).
But to be able to NOT recognize AI as a power to obey, you must first know AI.

What is AI and what is the Matrix? Know thy enemy!

Thus the enemy is NOT stupid binary math and algorithms called AI in a flat screen, but YOURSELF who sit with an open mouth and give yourself in.
Therefore you are and become the Enemy of yourself because you are and will be until you wake up only a sleepy useful idiot!
Did you see the Lady in red Neo? https://youtu.be/YgJ5ZEn67tk .

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 3, 2025 10:13 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

From the Matrix: “Electromagnetic pulse … the only thing that can disable the system”. Well, ‘they’ own those machines as well – DEWs, or directed energy weapons.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 4:41 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas
Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 4, 2025 5:58 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Too much “register this and that” what for?
But the article has a excellent picture of how our universe inclusive of our earth is build and designed after the golden ration.

There is not a single straight line in anything nature in our universe and world. Only human bad design make straight lines….and zero sums: comment image

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 5, 2025 8:39 PM
Reply to  Johnny

Good explanation! The article talks about the earth’s atmosphere. Can you explain how our gaseous atmosphere is held in place right next to the vacuum of space (think: 2nd law of thermodynamics)?

Nice CGI images of planets, btw.

sunnymoon
sunnymoon
Feb 3, 2025 12:48 PM

After the chocolate ration is reduced from 30 grammes per week to 20, the Ministry of Truth puts out the claim that it has been increased to 20 grammes (its supposed previous level is not stated).
Later on, Winston hears a reporter/newsreader on the telescreen claiming that spontaneous gatherings of people have formed and demonstrated, purely to thank Big Brother for this:Nineteen Eighty Four – the chocolate ration demonstrations

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Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 4, 2025 6:01 PM
Reply to  sunnymoon

You should be happy you get chocolate AT ALL. Many small kids in the third world only get 10 grammes A YEAR! Why I believe in my government.

sunnymoon
sunnymoon
Feb 3, 2025 12:45 PM

Start know more wars of to a good start

Feb 1
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

This morning I ordered precision Military air strikes on the Senior ISIS Attack Planner and other terrorists he recruited and led in Somalia. These killers, who we found hiding in caves, threatened the United States and our Allies. The strikes destroyed the caves they live in, and killed many terrorists without, in any way, harming civilians. Our Military has targeted this ISIS Attack Planner for years, but Biden and his cronies wouldn’t act quickly enough to get the job done. I did! The message to ISIS and all others who would attack Americans is that “WE WILL FIND YOU, AND WE WILL KILL YOU!”

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 3:39 PM
Reply to  sunnymoon

So the stupid Americans pay, train, and make space for ISIS groups everywhere, just to kill some of them again to pretend America is against its own babies……………….LOL.
You Americans are really so smarty so smarty so smarty……….. 😂 .

underground poet
underground poet
Feb 3, 2025 12:33 PM

Like any technology, its not the tech that is the problem, its the invisible human handlers of the tech that are the trouble makers.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 3:41 PM

Yes underground poet, you made a poem again. Because facts should be sacrificed yes!

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 9:39 PM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

sacred not sacrificed . My regrets, Israel’s new AI censorship did it, not me!

underground poet
underground poet
Feb 4, 2025 11:00 AM
Reply to  Erik Nielsen.

Open mouth, insert foot.

Rob
Rob
Feb 3, 2025 12:11 PM

Spying on people and abridgement of their rights is a national past time.
At least when it’s AI, people question it more.
How many stupid witnesses put innocent people in jail?

Also, perhaps an AI would be a better judge than these morons in robes.
Remember, judges didn’t think native Americans were people…

Nostalgia is a dangerous delusion.

diyg
diyg
Feb 3, 2025 2:05 PM
Reply to  Rob

Not nearly as dangerous and blindly embracing something like this. You don’t sound like a person of any intelligence. You no doubt will be the first to line up and take the mark of the beast. Nostalgia has nothing to do with any of this regardless so please go peddle your ridiculous attempt to put lipstick on a pig.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 3, 2025 5:59 PM
Reply to  Rob

Be careful what you wish for.
Despite human flaws, you at least have a chance to reason with a person. Not so with machines.

Look at how many people are killed by industrial robots. (Plenty of videos online these days.) A.I. being in control will be equally merciless.

RKae
RKae
Feb 3, 2025 11:05 PM
Reply to  Rob

Who’s programming the A.I.? It will NEVER be an impartial observer. It will NEVER be an impartial accuser.

Jerry Alatalo
Jerry Alatalo
Feb 3, 2025 12:06 PM

What we are approaching is the point of no return.

*

The paramount question begged by John and Nisha Whitehead in their courageous, profoundly disturbing, accurate article: How much effort are the 99.999% (We, the people) willing to exercise to prevent your children and grandchildren/future generations from living in a Fascist totalitarian dictatorship (controlled by the .001%), – forever spanning the entire Earth?

underground poet
underground poet
Feb 3, 2025 12:36 PM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

Not enough to make a difference.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 5:02 PM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

No one is willing to save anybody but themselves, and as such they will disappear as a specie because they didnt kept the two greatest Commandments of God.

But a little determined skilled team with The One in front can still do the trick and WIN over the Machine……for a while. Mr. Smith https://youtu.be/1H3HjMLxKXs

There will be blue birds over the white cliffs of dover, before little Jimmie can sleep peacefully again with his Teddy Bear, you just wait and see!

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 3, 2025 6:07 PM
Reply to  Jerry Alatalo

Old people are too weak and slow to do what’s needed.

Young people have too much to lose, and most of them don’t appreciate just how bad things are, so they won’t sacrifice everything.

And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 3, 2025 6:10 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

I just noticed “the cursed machine” in that quote from Solzhenitsyn. How apt.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 9:47 PM
Reply to  Jonathan

Alexander Solchenitsyn, and we know he is right.
As he describe the exact same pattern of today, the same passivity, the same awaiting the trucks coming back from the frontier, first with refugees, then with scarred bodies unloading them everywhere.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 3, 2025 10:58 AM

Elections, Australian style in 2025:

‘Pharmaceutical and health insurance companies gave a combined $1.3 million split across the major parties.’

More here:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-03/aec-reveals-donors-to-politicians-and-political-parties/104890444

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Feb 3, 2025 10:02 AM

I’be said it on here nbefore and I’ll say it ahain, AI is a red herring.

An amuse bouche whilst the main course is being prepared

les online
les online
Feb 3, 2025 10:41 AM

AI machines also Hal-lucinate…

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 3, 2025 11:11 AM
Reply to  les online

2025: A(l) Space Odyssey?

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 8:57 AM
Reply to  Johnny

Correction:

2025: A Spies Odyssey.

diyg
diyg
Feb 3, 2025 2:10 PM

It would be helpful if you tell us what the main course is. Of course you likely don’t know this is just something you want to minimize. Well the main course is going to be globalism with a one world religion and a one world government. That is where we are heading and nothing is going to change that eventuality. NOTHING. So the only question that needs to be asked is if what is going on is going to move us closer to that goal or further away. Well the answer is obvious. Closer. So its not a red herring. In fact it’s not even close to a red herring because the essentially brainless republicans lack any critical thinking skills and fail to see where this is going to end up. Instead they base their entire political ideology on the basis of Trump pissing off the left.

Clutching at straws
Clutching at straws
Feb 3, 2025 3:10 PM
Reply to  diyg

What we know:

Globalism is faux communism, like USSR was.

Communism looks workable on paper….

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 5:07 PM
Reply to  diyg

Yes the Republican crybabies are not like their famous grandfathers:
“The Leftist LGBT team stole our election wuah, wuah, wuah”.

Veri Tas
Veri Tas
Feb 3, 2025 10:30 PM
Reply to  diyg

No government, including those of the BRICS countries, is resisting these profound changes. No government, including those of the BRICS countries, will resist these profound changes.

The geopolitical world does not revolve around sovereign nation-states because no nation is sovereign. That is, no government of a nation-state is able to exercise independent and ultimate authority over all of its (internal and external) affairs.

Of course, this has long been the case as explained by preeminent historianProfessor Carroll Quigley in his classic work published in 1966. See Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time.

….

To conceal the reality that no nation is sovereign, governments have long been empowered
to make decisions about minor matters (which may still have critical impact on some populations) that have no bearing on the fundamental Elite program while any significant ‘decisions’ made by governments are confined to endorsing Elite directives and mobilizing the relevant agents in government, bureaucracies, the media, the military and elsewhere to implement the latest components of the Elite program.

Excerpt from Robert J Burrowes, The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity on Global Research

Also refer to Iain Davies’ handy Global Public-Private Partnership chart to see who controls and practically owns us.

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 4, 2025 1:26 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Exactly.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 4, 2025 3:15 AM
Reply to  Veri Tas

Given that governments grant themselves a monopoly of force, and can set national law, I find it astonishing that they are so happy to cede sovereignty to external powers.

They choose to be henchmen serving a far away boss, instead of being the Big Boss themselves. Bizarre.

The power of money, eh?

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 3, 2025 6:27 PM

A.I. saves money and makes our rulers less dependent on people, solidifying their power over us. But that’s only the start.

It will also act as an impenetrable barrier between them and us.
Got a complaint? “Tell it to the computer!”
Government policy was cruel and disastrous? “Wasn’t us, the computer did it!”

The “Intelligence” part is the red herring. It’s just automation… Automated Ideology.

antonym
antonym
Feb 3, 2025 9:13 AM

AI and climate misinformation today:

Most AI models read any texts published on Internet. Very few take measured data as their base: see the comparison shown about the US’ hottest period.
See also how ChatGPT adjusted its answer after reading this researcher’s new text on the Net.

antonym
antonym
Feb 3, 2025 9:11 AM

Indeed, China’s social credit system, where citizens are assigned scores based on their behavior and compliance, offers a glimpse into this dystopian future.

For non residential Chinese it is only a glimps, for the 800 million native Chinese it is a living 1984 / Matrix. Weird behaviors flourish, not seen in freedom, like killed random pedestrians with a car.

Jonathan
Jonathan
Feb 3, 2025 6:34 PM
Reply to  antonym

It should be called Social Compliance System.

One of the reasons Chinese don’t rush to help when there are road accidents, children drowning, etc., is that they will be held responsible for the outcome.

This is what happens when you try to program people like robots.

MolecCodicies
MolecCodicies
Feb 3, 2025 9:01 AM

The singularity is absolute bullshit. You’d do better to disbelieve it. The whole point is to scare you.

Mr Y
Mr Y
Feb 3, 2025 8:54 AM

“But for an AI, there would be no death. It would live forever.”

Nonsense – just pull the plug. Or just wait; after oil there will be a lot less internet and “AI”.

RKae
RKae
Feb 3, 2025 11:09 PM
Reply to  Mr Y

“Just pull the plug.”

You give genius advice! That’ll totally work!

That’s like the casual advice to women regarding rape: “Just cross your legs. He’ll get frustrated and go away.”

Johnny
Johnny
Feb 3, 2025 8:31 AM

Where are the activist hackers when we need them?
After all, behind every Al is an algorithm written by a human.

A few wrenches in their blood grinding gears might slow their nasty plans of total domination.

Erik Nielsen.
Erik Nielsen.
Feb 3, 2025 5:12 PM
Reply to  Johnny

All the activist hackers are CIA and MI6 paid or other foreign Intelligence paid. No skilled normal person would jeopardize themselves and hack the system with a negative benefit.