AI is a weapon being developed to control you

The United States government, in collaboration with its tech oligarch and the ghoulish intelligence agencies, has developed a tool so demonic it makes the Patriot Act look like a child’s toy. Artificial intelligence, in its most advanced forms, is no longer just a convenience or a curiosity—it’s a weapon, one designed to infiltrate your mind, shape your perceptions, and enforce compliance without you ever realizing you’ve been targeted. This isn’t speculation—it’s the logical endpoint of everything I’ve documented over the years—the surveillance state, the propaganda mills and the coordinated attacks on dissidents. The evidence is in the patterns, the systems already in place, and the admissions buried in plain sight. If we don’t see it coming, we’re already defeated. One of the most terrifying aspects of this is that it scales. In the past, the government had to pay a lot of money to use human agents to track you, surveil you, and then process this information. This meant there were at least some financial and practical limitations. But with AI it can roll out AI agents that work 24/7 to surveil you, use mercenary spyware to log your conversations and then transcript them to text and send them to its data center, where AI analyze the conversations and create summary reports. One human can read the flagged conversations of numerous people. It makes targeting someone and spying on them extremely efficient. This expands the digital prison. In this model, the entire population could be forced to live in a digital prison, policed by AI. And the development of autonomous drones with weapons could mean the “neutralizing” of those same targets using metadata (As Michael Haydn said, ‘we kill people based on metadata’”). These autonomous drones kill people in Gaza now. One of them plays the sounds of a crying baby. When people go out to check they get shot.

Start with what we know. The government has a long history of experimenting with mind control—MKUltra wasn’t a one-off, it was a blueprint. Declassified CIA documents show they dosed unwitting citizens with LSD, used hypnosis, and tested behavioral modification techniques from the 1950s through the 1970s. The program officially ended, they say, but it really didn’t. Fast forward to the digital age: the NSA’s PRISM program, exposed by Snowden in 2013, proved they’re collecting everything—your emails, your calls, your browsing history. They don’t just store it—they analyze it. And who’s doing the heavy lifting? Algorithms, early AI, sifting through petabytes of data to profile you. That was over a decade ago. Now, with advancements in machine learning and neural networks, the capabilities have become exponentially more powerful. We’re not talking about crude bots anymore; we’re talking about systems that can think, adapt, and manipulate on a scale MKUltra’s architects could only dream of.

Consider the infrastructure. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—DARPA—has been funding AI research for decades. Their LifeLog project, shut down in 2004, was a total surveillance system meant to track every aspect of a person’s life. Coincidentally—or not—Facebook launched the same year, doing the same thing under the guise of “social networking.” DARPA didn’t abandon the idea—they just pivoted. By 2012, they were working on the Total Information Awareness program’s successors, integrating AI to predict “threats.” Their 2021 budget included $4 billion for AI-driven projects—public numbers, mind you. What’s classified? Look at Palantir, a private company tied to the CIA, using AI to mine data for law enforcement and military ops. Their software doesn’t just find patterns; it anticipates behavior. This isn’t theory—it’s operational.

Now, let’s connect the dots to social media. I’ve written before about Quora’s role as a propaganda platform—how fake accounts and bots pushed narratives on Ukraine and COVID. It was done manually and algorithmically—precise, and many times, and often, instantaneous. Twitter’s the same. The TwitterFiles, released in 2022, showed FBI and DHS flagging accounts for censorship—mine included, shadowbanned even under Musk’s “free speech” reign. But it’s not just suppression. AI doesn’t stop at blocking— it shapes. Ever notice how your feed seems to “know” what gets you riled up? That’s not an accident. Platforms like Facebook and Google use AI to curate content—ads, posts, videos—based on your profile. They’ve admitted it. Facebook’s 2014 emotional manipulation study, published in PNAS, showed they could alter users’ moods by tweaking feeds. That was basic—today’s AI can do far more.

Here’s the mechanism, step-by-step, because understanding this is critical. First, they harvest your data—every click, every like, every pause. They feed this into AI models—think GPT-level tech, but militarized. These systems build a psychological map—your beliefs, your fears, your breaking points. Then they deploy. Maybe it’s a news story crafted to outrage you, maybe it’s a subtle shift in search results to nudge your thinking. Over time, they refine it, testing what works. The goal? Control. Not just your actions, but your thoughts. If they can make you hate Russia, fear a virus, or trust a vaccine, they’ve won without firing a shot. This is psychological warfare, updated for the 21st century. That’s why it is called “Fifth Generation Warfare.” It’s a hybrid that doesn’t look anything like the kind of war we saw in WWII. In this kind of war, there is no such thing as “free speech,” but only an “information battlespace.” The ghouls don’t give a damn about your Constitutional rights.

“The Minds of Men,” a documentary about the history of MKULTRA

Look at the evidence in practice. The COVID narrative was a masterclass in manipulation. Fear spiked overnight in 2020, compliance followed. How? AI-driven messaging. Bots flooded Twitter with pro-lockdown posts; studies from Carnegie Mellon in 2021 found over 50% of COVID tweets came from non-human accounts. The vaccine push was the same—dissenters got labeled “anti-vax,” smeared by coordinated campaigns too fast, too uniform to be organic. The shots were unsafe, forced on millions via propaganda. AI made that possible, amplifying the signal until resistance crumbled. Ukraine’s no different. The Bucha “massacre” in 2022 was sold globally by AI bots drowning out skepticism. Check the timelines; the story broke, and within hours, it was gospel.

The government’s not alone in this. Tech giants—Google, Amazon, Microsoft—partner with the state. Amazon’s cloud services host CIA data; Microsoft builds AI for the Pentagon. Elon Musk’s xAI, despite his “truth-seeker” persona, takes DARPA cash.

My reach tanked post-2023; the algorithm still throttles dissent. These companies aren’t just complicit—they’re co-designers. Their AI isn’t neutral; it’s trained on biased datasets, tuned to serve power. Look at Google’s search tweaks—type “climate change” and you get one side, always. That’s deliberate, and it’s AI enforcing the line.

What’s the endgame? Total cognitive dominance. The World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset” talks “smart cities”—AI tracking your every move, your every thought. The military’s already there; a 2021 West Point study on “neurotechnology” outlined AI linking to human brains for “cognitive enhancement.” Enhancement, sure—or control. I’ve been watchlisted since 2022, stalked by InfraGard because of my writing on Quora and because I might expose Quora as a propaganda platform. My wife lost her job with the Cleveland Clinic—an InfraGard “partner,” my home’s been broken into, drones flown over it, helicopters overhead in Ohio. That’s low-tech compared to what’s coming. Imagine AI predicting dissent before it forms, neutralizing it with a tailored psyop. They don’t need SWAT teams when they can slowly “nudge” you. But they may still send the SWAT if there prior attacks don’t “nudge” you to STFU.

History backs this up. The Stasi’s Zersetzung—psychological harassment to break dissidents—was crude but effective. AI’s the modern version, scalable and invisible. The CIA’s Operation Mockingbird, planting stories in the press, relied on human assets. Now, AI does it faster, broader. The 2016 election “Russian interference” panic? A dry run—AI bots tested, refined. By 2020, they’d perfected it. The system learns, adapts, and scales. It’s not paranoia—it’s pattern recognition.

We’re not helpless on an individual scale. There are steps we can take to mitigate some of this, but the overall creeping authoritarianism will continue and will have brutal social consequences for our society as a whole over the next fifty years.

Encrypt your communications—Signal, Tor—starve the beast of data. Spread this offline—AI can’t censor a conversation. They’ve got the edge—they are developing AI rapidly, they put backdoors in the telecommunications system (now hacked by the Chinese), and have PRISM to collect your data from major Big Tech providers like Microsoft, Yahoo, and Google. They can go right into your Google Drive and read your files with the touch of one button. The FBI did it over 278,000 times within the last two years. If enough wake up, the system chokes. Use a reputable VPN like Mullvad VPN or a decentralized VPN like Mysterium to cloak your web search history from your ISP or Internet service provider. If you are suspected of being a “domestic terrorist” in the US, your ISP can receive a demand from the government that your web activity is logged and sent to them. Using a VPN restores your privacy. The rub is that VPN providers can receive these requests, too. If one is American based and not decentralized, then they can send your data over to the feds and they are legally prohibited from telling you it is happening. Proton VPN isn’t a bad choice for a free provider. It is located in Switzerland, which has more laws which are privacy respecting. Mullvad VPN is located in Sweden. It has been audited and has a very solid reputation. It has been shown it is indeed “no logs.” But if you are a whistleblower then you still shouldn’t trust it with your most sensitive activities. You would need to use Tor with Tails OS for that.

My advice? Consider creating fake names to use on social media. Don’t share photos of your family, especially your children. Use an email address dedicated only to that social media platform. Use a unique password for all of them. Don’t share personal information. Ideally people wouldn’t use things like Facebook at all. But some people are going to do it anyway so there should be efforts made to reduce your attack surface. When asked questions for “security” to reset your password, don’t answer them truthfully. Write down the answers you provided. Anyone can dig a bit to find out your birthday. But when you make it your password to your home network and you email box, then you’ve got a serious problem. When you read Quora, all of the data is collected, including how often you scroll down the page. This is fed into a database that is used by AI to train it. You can opt out of this in the account settings. Will they actually honor this? Probably not. But at least you can try.

Don’t use Chrome browser. It is used by Google to collect your data and ship it to them. Google is a partner with the US government. And no, “don’t do evil” is no longer one of its mottos. Use Brave browser or Librewolf instead. Use Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, and make sure “HTTPS only” is turned on in your settings. By using Mullvad VPN or Proton VPN, let them handle your DNS settings and encrypt these, restoring your privacy so the feds can’t see what websites you are visiting. Mullvad VPN has a setting that confuses DPI or deep packet inspection. Even though your data may be encrypted, there are variations in the flow of traffic, that combined with AI pattern recognition can lead to a determination of what you are doing, likely what website you are on, etc. The feds have tapped the undersea cables which feed the Internet. They suck up all of the data and store it, including the encrypted communications, hoping that one day, developments in quantum computing will make this data accessible via cracking. Mullvad has quantum resistance, too, which helps prevent this from happening in the future.

The irony of this is that I used it to help learn about and develop this answer. If we think we can use legal means to stop the development of AI we would be wrong. No country has stopped developing tools which increase its power and control for moral reasons. “If we don’t develop AI then our enemies will build stronger AI and defeat us” is their justification. The problem is that every country thinks this. On a personal scale, we should consider the same. If you don’t use AI to help defend yourself against the AI being developed to defeat you, then you aren’t gonna make it.

This was written in collaboration with and part of a conversation I had with Grok 3.