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We are potentially on the cusp of profound social change instigated by developing technologies. A couple of days ago, a high school phys-ed teacher from Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States, attempted to frame his boss, the principal, as a racist anti-Semite. He used widely available audio-visual AI to impersonate his voice and emailed the fake recording pseudo-anonymously. It spread like wildfire, and the principal nearly had his life ruined. The phys-ed teacher, a black leftist, was under investigation by the board for misallocating funds by paying his roommate under the table to be his coaching assistant, among other things. The melanated gentleman, Dazhon Darien, fled shortly after the fact and was caught halfway across the country at an airport following a random warrant check, as the FBI got involved. For a moment, he really thought he had taken out that kkkraka son of Yakub.
We are entering a very different world. Chances are it’s going to be dystopian, but not the cool kind of dystopian where you wear a long coat and eat noodles in the rain by a neon-lit food court, mysteriously slurping the delicious MSG and microplastic broth of synthetic meat and tofu while ads featuring the beautiful faces of Ana de Armas or Sydney Sweeney as parasocial AI girlfriends blast your senses on a 50 foot electronic billboard. Instead, it’s more like being thrown in a gulag because some autogynephile stalked your social media, made a recording of your voice, and reported you for doin a heckin’ racism online (let's be real, they didn't have to fake it).
A normal person might be looking at this situation and feeling confused. How will we verify if anything is true anymore? What sick mind would not only conceive this technology but use it in such a manner to potentially destroy another person's life? People have bills to pay; they have mouths to feed (though these days, the mouths more often than not belong to dogs or plants). "Deepfakes" are one thing. It's less believable that a person would randomly have hardcore porn floating out there on the internet—or is it? Thirteen million out of the U.S.'s 342 million people have an OnlyFans, mostly women. That's 4% of the population. It's another thing entirely to fabricate evidence of the most profound sin in our modern religion: racism. The Manageois and their useful idiots are already using this technology. Darien wasn't very smart, though, because a smart person wouldn't have used a traceable email. For a moment, let's step away from individual spiteful mutants using advanced technology for personal gain against racial targets wytpipo.
They aren't the first, and they won't be the last to utilize new technology. Long before the digital age, the budding Manageois did everything to establish information control and succeeded. You have Machiavellians like Edward Bernays, who successfully marketed cigarettes to women by branding them as feminist. He also worked with the U.S. military, presidential campaigns, and CIA to overthrow the Guatemalan government. He was the nephew of the incestuous child molester Sigmund Freud. 'Crystallizing Public Opinion' (1923) and 'Propaganda' (1928) were his two heaviest hitters that would go on to define public relations, propaganda, and marketing for generations. Bernays was an exceptional propagandist. You can read more about that at
’s piece “Cthulu Gazes Right”.Recently, I tuned into Dimes & Judas on the incredible Blood $atellite podcast where they reviewed "Neurotechnology in National Security and Defence: Practical Considerations, Neuroethical Concerns," a book by James Giordano, PhD, released in 2014. At that time, many technologies we now take for granted, like AI and drones, were not as well-known by the public. You can find that book review here. This book is, more or less, very seriously about brain-machine neural interfaces, the utilization of neurotoxins, and cognitive enhancement, primarily for military purposes. I am not making this up. This is something people should be sincerely concerned with, unless you want to end up with a libtard frying your grey matter wirelessly by sending malicious code to your state-enforced Neuralink because you aren’t huffing Gay Race Communism gas. Kernel, a neurotechnology company, is trying to map out emotions in the brain. If understood as sets of data, emotions can be amplified or suppressed. They work closely with Meta (who is also developing their own neurotechnology—you vill live in ze metaverse), and of course, Neuralink. Kernel currently has a prototype brain-interface in the form of a cool helmet that you can take off.
Another thing discussed are asymmetrical forms of warfare—like economic warfare. In "Neurotechnology in National Security and Defence," industry leaders discuss aerosolized MDMA to pacify combat zones, induce anxiety or depression in opposing forces, or outright kill them with neurotoxins. Consider that only nine years ago, libtards were talking about using magnets to make you atheist and pro immigration. It's not a stretch to imagine the adoption of these technologies for military and civilian law enforcement purposes. Robo-dogs, bipedal robots, and Flamethrower robo-dogs exist, they just have yet to be weaponized. So do claymore roombas, and in the Russo-Ukraine war, soldiers are using cheap, inexpensive drones to drop bombs and grenades on each other. This has completely changed war and conflict. Billions of dollars worth of high-tech, complex weapons systems are being challenged successfully in some cases with cheaper, less expensive means. This may change geopolitics astronomically. To quote Dimes at
, "China has fentanyl, the U.S. has Colour Revolutions." Dimes is correct. That’s not the only weapon the Americans have. Lyme disease was made in a lab.The Other Problem - Asymmetrical Warfare
As far as the Chinese go, in "Claws of the Panda: Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada" by Jonathan Manthorpe, we discover the sheer degree of infiltration of the Chinese Communist Party across North America. Furthermore, in "Wilful Blindness: How a Network of Narcos, Tycoons and CCP Agents Infiltrated the West" by Professor Charles Burton, PhD, we learn that Chinese Triads, working with the CCP and originally from Hong Kong, moved to Vancouver over forty years ago to distribute fentanyl from British Columbia to Argentina. They are to fentanyl what cocaine is to cartels. This is a form of economic warfare, arguably another aspect of Fifth Generation Warfare. The Chinese military in 1990 wrote a book, titled “Unrestricted Warfare”, and sought to corner the market on these tactics. Seek
for an in-depth exploration of these tactics in his essay: “Political Conflict in the Age of Psychic Warfare” . All the above capture the degree to which the Chinese have infiltrated not just Canada, but much of North America, and utilize their enemy’s populace as a battering ram by making them a burden. CSIS (the Canadian Security Intelligence Service), has completely failed in its duties to stop this from happening. It may even be complicit, according to RCMP accusations against them over Project Sidewinder. Think about it: COVID being developed in a lab as a mostly non-lethal virus to destabilize the enemy’s economies is not far-fetched. Chinese subversion is directly responsible for the fentanyl epidemic ripping Canada apart, as well as parts of the United States.Technology of this calibre, like AI, is being developed simultaneously in both private and public spheres. As these technologies have been released to the public, Pandora's Box has been opened. There is no going back from this. The jig is up; the cat is out of the bag. There is not much separation between government and private tech. As I write this, there are hundreds of audio-visual AI services utilizing cloud computation, and publicly released open-source AI models that you can run on your computer if the hardware is good enough. I have Stable Diffusion on my computer and can create all the top-notch photorealistic fat bottomed women digital art I want, for fun or writing. You can make your own music, movies, art; you can create your own media, free from the military-industrial-media complex. Everyone can be an entertainer, musician, film director, artist, and yes, even a propagandist. All it takes is the gift of the prompt.
Why am I bringing all of this up? What do brain chips, fentanyl and Gay Race Communism have to do with Dazhon Darien, the black, leftist phys-ed teacher who sought to character assassinate the principle, his boss, by using AI technology?
Highly advanced technological and asymmetrical warfare is already being waged against you, from the lowest local level to the highest civilizational level. In the present, and especially in the future, there will be no such thing as non-combatants. This is the same thing on different scales. Enemies, foreign or domestic, Chinese and manageoisie, are capitalizing on new methods methods to destroy what's left of the good people of the Western world. It's not a matter of when or if. The precedent was set a long time ago—but as we enter the mid-2020s, they are going to increase on levels we've never seen before.
Where are we?
There is scarcely anything new under the sun. Some thinkers have built models and solutions. Some of these approaches may be difficult for some to consider. Traditionalists of all stripes will be reluctant to engage in this game, unwilling to utilize these technologies, tactics, and strategies. Many of them, fairly enough, view flirting with potential Faustian bargains and methods as ethically questionable. Many view wrangling this beast, which they believe to be Satanic or Saturnian, as a waste of time with no path to victory at worst, and at best, a corrupting force. More likely than not, they’ll want to check out of society harder than everyone else, return to the earth, build their communes, prepare themselves, and pray for this all to blow over. There is a reluctance to engage with the world in a way that will ensure survival. There is a very real hostility to the technology that will be necessary to preserve their way of life. Conversely, you have techno-positivists and Vitalists who want to pick up the sword.
I am of the techno-positivist and vitalist view. In my view, if profound socio-economic and biotechnological changes are inevitable for the human species, and never-before seen tactics are being utilized against us, we are caught between a rock and a hard place. We are stuck between the dynamism necessary to survive and maintaining the beliefs that matter to us. I lean toward the view that it's better that like-minded people pick up the sword so that evil people do not. If we must, then fighting for a future where everyone is a 7-foot-tall, 200 IQ Nephilim is better than having our consciousnesses being copied and horiffically uploaded into some AI hivemind or whatever abomination. Many will want to cling to traditions and values that we all look so fondly to, as something to anchor.
“The world of the future will be precisely as Nietzsche foresaw it. I also aim to positively define the flexible and rather neutral concepts of ‘post-modernity’ and ‘anti-egalitarianism’ by constructing a new term that describes an ideology to be developed: vitalist constructivism.”
Faye, Guillaume. Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age (p. 15). Arktos.
What about our Traditions?
Let's talk about culture; we don't dance anymore. Most of us don’t create art or music. Most do not play an instrument. We merely consume these things. Nearly all our local folk traditions are gone. There is no religious consensus. We are fed perfectly curated, controlled garbage designed to be fake alternatives to the real thing. Music is completely predetermined and inorganic. Even so-called conservative music, like country, is a mix of hip-hop or rap and owned by the same parent companies with the same songwriters. Rural women are not more feminine, traditional, or conservative than city women. A good chunk of us are not religious, do not participate in a religious community. Those who do, cannot agree on religion, let alone the denomination of that religion. Your choices of culture are the intensely foreign-rooted, catered to, urban "cultures" dominated by the demographic change of major cities, or the vestiges of rural living—with all its commercialized beer can biting, corn syrup loving, deep-fried pop-country Ford F-350 driving, dip-chewing spitting superficiality, perfectly catered to a poor, abandoned, dejected populace who are proud of it. If you're a European, it's all of these things, but watered down, exported American garbage that has a local spin, like Albanian or Turkish rap in the German language, or maybe it’s a disgusting dialect like Verlan.
Politically speaking, liberalism of the last 300 years is largely our tradition but has been watered down to the point of meaninglessness, leaving only fragments behind. These shards include a moderate dose of healthy respect for the individual, parliamentary democracy, rule of law, constitutional monarchy, or republicanism, as well as private property—the principally Anglo, yet roughly Western way. Western countries are now more accurately described as Managerial States. This means a scenario where neither the capital owners (the bourgeoisie) nor the proletariat (the workers), control the means of production. Instead, the Manageoisie, as James Burnham said, are a class of managers, who control production by managing the workers and operations of businesses and government institutions, rather than through ownership of capital assets. This class thrives in and promotes bureaucratic organizations where hierarchical structures ensure their authority and control, such as government administrations, large corporations, academia, health authorities, and “human” resources. Managers use specialized knowledge and technical expertise to operate and control the economic, political, and social systems, making decisions that impact the organization and direction of society. This shift was not confined to any single country but was a global phenomenon, leading to similar forms of managerial governance worldwide. As liberal democracy fails, collapsing under its own contradictions, oligarchies form, and the rich rob the citizenry. Capitalism ages out, wealth is hoarded at the top, but socialism doesn’t replace it as Marx predicted. Instead, technology twists and warps it into a new abomination, unique to our time. A leviathan combining the power of Capital with the corruption of the Marxist New Left, who abandoned economic socialism for sociology . Fun fact: hardline communists seethe when you mention this. They despise the fact that "Trotskyists" and "Gauchistes"—a term they use for "woke" leftists—have total cultural control over the namesake of their ideology. Added to the mix are the evangelizing cultural Christian impulses of its former western adherents, now secularized. Traditional conservatives wish for a return to Christ, not realizing that this has already occurred in what's known as "The Great Awokening." In this new dogma, Christ is replaced with Equity, manifested via DEI, and original sin as Whiteness, which can never be redeemed. There is no penance for these do-gooder flagellants. These are profoundly morally driven people. The Managerial Regime is a horrific combination of capital, communism, and more. Regardless of what conservatives, liberals, boomers, libertarians, or anyone else says, this is the reality. It's not "communism," "socialism," "late-stage capitalism," "fascism," “Islamofascism,” “communist Nazism,” or "globalism," although it manifests internationally.
“We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us. It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than a mere extension of the present. Against modernism, futurism. Against attachment to the past, archaism. Modernity has failed, it is crumbling, and its followers are the real reactionaries”.
Faye, Guillaume. Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age (p. 18). Arktos. Kindle Edition.
Gustav Mahler once said, "Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire." If tradition isn't about worshipping ash but preserving fire, then the fire has been stamped out, hosed down, sanded, and blown away in the wind. We are different from the men and women of the 20th century and beyond. We are products of our time, facing unprecedented challenges, and there is no going back. You cannot have 20th-century style mass-action fascism. There will be no international workers' proletariat, no liberal-capitalist nationalist revolution, no restoration of the Ancien Régime, and no Fourth Reich. What we will have will be unique to our time, in our place, in our circumstances, and it will not be the solution to whatever problems exist centuries from now. Its symbols will only be relevant to us, its values skewed to what was most important for victory and survival in our darkest hour, but hopefully tailored to take the future into account. You cannot go back: you can only go forward. We must pick up the sword and move forward with more courage than ever before.
No doubt you have dreamt of a better world. You're motivated by beautiful landscapes and vistas of the distant past. Great cities of white marble and gold, showcasing Greco-Roman, Neoclassical, or Art Deco architecture. Love, honour, chivalry, duty, sacrifice, the magic of life. Legionaries, knights, ladies, and nymphs of legends. You may also be inspired by visions of Space Rome, or a more "modern" and perhaps "Germanic" version of that. Perhaps you once believed that everyone deserved freedom, a plot of land, and hunting grounds with a profound respect for leaving people alone, and saw that in space (see you, space cowboy). You're not alone. You can have it. It is possible, but not if you won't let go, so that you can create it again.
Faye is one of my favourite philosophers. He understood that current tradition is dead and modernity is dying. The old rules were destroyed, and thrown out. They only matter to us now. The past is a different country, and the world you grew up in no longer exists. Thirteen years ago, I called myself a Neo-reactionary. I read Mencius Moldbug back then, as he was known, before anybody knew his true name. When you ask a centre-right populist what traditional society is, they just describe 2002. If you ask a conservative what his ideal of a traditional society is, he will likely refer to the 1950s. If you ask a Paleoconservative, he’ll say 1900, and if you ask a Neo-reactionary, he’ll probably describe the 1840s. There is nothing left to preserve, or conserve, other than memories.
“We must take up the idea of Revolution again, a notion that has been misinterpreted and betrayed by the charlatans of the Left for over two centuries”.
Faye, Guillaume. Archeofuturism: European Visions of the Post-Catastrophic Age (p. 17). Arktos. Kindle Edition.
Pick up the sword
Given the circumstances outlined above, I’m demonstrating that we are already in a state of total war. We have been this entire time. There is a tremendous opportunity to engage in psychological warfare, produce mass media, and utilize demoralization tactics as parallel societies and organizations are built simultaneously. Learning from figures such as Antonio Gramsci, tactics that good friend of mine reminded me of via this article by the beautiful and analytical
. First, let’s explore what she says:“Gramsci attempted to break away from Marx’s material determinism. On his understanding, Marx was wrong—the false consciousness of the proletariat would be awakened, not by overthrowing the means of production, but the other way around; by taking over the cultural institutions which shape the dominant ideology. No violent revolution was necessary: control of the superstructure of these cultural institutions was enough for this to trickle down to the economic base. It was a continuation, and simultaneously an inversion of Marx’s theory of history.”
This idea echoes the concept of the 'long march through the institutions,' a phrase by to Rudi Dutschke around 1967. Given the significant cultural shifts that occurred during this period, we can confidently say that this strategy was successful. Those individuals aged out, joined the institutions, and influenced them from within. The French term for those referred to as '68ers'—from which the term 'Gauchiste' derives—refers to this type of original Trotskyist, socially-focused Marxist who chose the 'long march.' From the perspective of staunch communists, they compromised the moment they accepted positions in universities. Unfortunately for the neoliberal capitalist establishment of the time, their corruption would rot them from within, and two species of mold would converge into one.
Bocchi continues her criticism, stating:
“The democratic victories of Brexit in the U.K., Donald Trump in the U.S. and Giorgia Meloni in Italy, to name a few, testify to the fact that the establishment, which has largely dominated Western societies since the end of the Cold War, is no longer immune to electoral challenge. Yet it is remarkable how this electoral dissatisfaction fails to translate into the cultural architecture, where the Overton window continues to shift in an opposite direction: increasing wars abroad, economic policies that are leading to a recession, combined with a belligerent progressive agenda that dismantles and redefines the very language with which we have come to define our existence.”
I disagree on only one point, which is that the Overton Window continues to shift leftward. It is actually being pulled in both directions along class lines. The lower class, the lower-middle class, and the 'true' middle class are moving rightward, partly because the middle class as a whole is gradually sliding into poverty year by year. Conversely, the upper-middle class and the wealthy are moving leftward. The numbers of the underclass are growing, largely due to the lower class being the most vulnerable to socioeconomic changes. On the other hand, some individuals make a show of their progressive credentials by prominently featuring their mixed-race, non-binary child or their adopted Black transgender child on social media.
Bocchi finally says
“Dissidents today so often seek to become political commentators lamenting their plight in an online space. While these lamentations are legitimate and have borne their fruits in terms of democratic victories, they only fortify their marginalisation from the cultural power structures necessary to effect meaningful change. If dissidents want to win the culture war over people’s consciousness, they need to start, as Gramsci argued, influencing, replacing or creating schools, universities, media, places of worship, entertainment. If they continue to act as outsiders, that is the fate that will await them. But if they start participating in life actively, away from their online political prism, perhaps Elon Musk won’t have to worry about the backlash from his purchase of Twitter.”
Bocchi suggests that a counter-revolutionary 'long march through the institutions' is ideal; however, I believe this is becoming increasingly implausible. She wrote this in November 2022, and yet since then, institutions worldwide have become more insular, showing a paranoid response to potential interlopers, especially given their awareness of their own origins. The managerial class imposes endless, inconsolable loyalty tests that are not worth the effort for even the brightest minds. This leads us to a different perspective: As stated by
in 'The Right’s Future Must be Parallel, and Counter-Revolutionary':Such a strategy would first of all have to be anti-fragile. That means it would have to be difficult to disrupt and suppress, no matter how much its enemies tried. In fact, ideally it should even gain strength from persecution, rather than lose it. In short, it must be very hard to kill. It must be scalable. By this I mean that it must be flexible enough to meet a wide range of possible challenges and scenarios – from draconian repression, to acute instability, to sweeping electoral victory – without the core thrust of its strategy ever needing to change. It must be self-legitimizing. Rather than its legitimacy hinging on promises, such as on the outcomes of an election or specific legislation, it should generate loyalty and popular legitimacy from the core nature of its very existence and everyday function. Most importantly, it must be self-reinforcing. That means its every action builds the capacity for further action on a greater scale; every exercise of power generates additional power; every success makes further successes more likely, until the accumulated facts on the ground make victory seem inevitable. There is in my view only one strategic method that can possibly fulfill all of these requirements. That is the strategy of deliberately constructing a parallel state from the ground up.
Mass action at the present is leaning towards not being viable. The self-flagellating loyalty tests are too extreme. Trans-ing your adopted foreign children might be the price social strivers are willing to pay, but not any sound, healthy mind. There is no longer time for the Long March through the Institutions. In places like North America, which can fit a multitude of European countries inside of it, even more so. Lyons also has this to say, of the Czech and Hungarian dissidents building Parallel States pre-Soviet collapse:
In doing so they did far more than keep up morale with pleasant intellectual diversions. They built a resilient base of organization from the ground up. They forged an experienced leadership cadre. They created a flexible underground network-state. And, when the weakened Communist state collapsed, they found themselves poised to quickly step in and fill the vacuum. Suddenly their parallel polis became the polis. Much of the chaos that other post-Communist states faced was thereby peacefully avoided.
(North America is a series of federal and confederal continent-spanning entities with unreliable infrastructure to connect it all. This is going to get worse as the Competency Crisis settles in along with the inevitable infrastructure deficits (by the great
. Even if it is, in equal parts should efforts be towards building a Parallel State.) The message from Bocchi and Lyons are opposite - one advocates a long march through the institutions, the other posits building a networked Parallel State. The reality is that both of these paths are absolutely necessary for the victory of the righteous against evil.Swing the sword
Let’s return to Isaac Simpson’s essay Cthulhu Gazes Right at
. Simpson explores here, a wealth of treasured weaponry in the form of strategies that I believe can best be utilized by the dissident right via new technologies as they are currently employed against normal, well-to-do people as well as dissidents.In some ways, there has never before been opportunity like there is now. The freshly wiped slate, in a twisted irony, presents you an opportunity to carve out your own future. All over the most popular social media platforms, you can see open visceral antagonism and hatred for the regime, it’s acolytes and sacred cows. Elon Musk openly calls detractors retards. The hollowed out, neoliberal shills and boomers are so scared they’ve started calling a majority of right-wingers the “woke right”. The Zionist lobbies all over the western world are scared, because both the left and the right are fed up with their shenanigans. Nobody can afford a home, a wife or husband, kids, education, or even to move to find a job that will be them enough to do any of these things. They’re taxed ruthlessly, endlessly, bled dry for every goddamn dollar they have just to send to Israel, to Ukraine, to Botswana for trans kids to have rights. We do not control the crumbling institutions, and they may be inaccessible for now, but we are winning the culture war. The opportunity of counter-revolutionary thought has never been greater. If it wasn’t, the Trudeau government wouldn’t have tried to shakedown Meta and Google for simply having Canadian news on their platform, or be pushing the most totalitarian internet censorship bill in human history. Don’t get started on Musk’s struggles maintaining control of X as a free speech platform.
Dissidents have the opportunity to use crowdfunding to conduct guerrilla, decentralized communications operations to influence algorithms. It only requires a TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, or X account, a popular song with cool imagery, and free editing software like CapCut. This produces more impactful propaganda than many intelligence agencies have managed in recent times. Creative individuals with access to AI-driven software are likely to be highly effective, regardless of their political affiliations. It’s so easy that zoomers already engage in this for fun, as seen across various platforms. We must utilize these weapons against the Managerial Regime. Vitalize these efforts: more radicalization, more enthusiasm. Studying mass communication and learning marketing—both online and offline—is an absolute must. Marketing, is the art of persuasion. If Bernays mastered it, so can we.
Returning to 'A Christmas Carol,' a classic novella by Charles Dickens, we see a powerful narrative where the protagonist is confronted by Death with visions of his future and the negative impact of his greed on others. This profound experience leads to personal transformation. Hypothetically speaking, an exercise of using anonymous accounts across platforms, with AI to portray libtards in various scenarios, like not being in interracial relationships, not having an OnlyFans, earing modest clothing, being in a healthy marriage, without mixed children, without a high number of tattoos, who are physically fit, not fat, and visibly happy could be a thought-provoking exercise. You may think it ghoulish, but consider everything I’ve mentioned. A powerful form of psychological warfare for the greater good. With audiovisual AI technology, prompt-based AIs to instruct you, and basic editing software, you too can become an effective propagandist from the comfort of your own home. You can lift two fingers to your eyes and say “look at me, I am the intel agency now”.
Brilliant essay, as usual. You leave out potentials for violent reactions from the remnants of the Old States, however. Some military parity of force is necessary to prevent the conflict going from online to IRL, to keep our nascent movement literally alive long enough to get rolling. You do, however, allude to the power of both asymmetrical warfare (a term I loathe) and the disparity of drone vs tank warfare...these concepts need further development. Also, it all begins with community; we don't get a notion of community any more at any point in our lives. We are forced into gubbamint skoolz alongside kids we don't know and don't like. We live in neighborhoods where all the people around you are just there because that was where they found a house for sale when they needed shelter. I think we should begin with landed communities of like minded persons. We need among us architects to build us shelter that enables community, that reduces the activation energy to participate in community to such a low level that people will go out their front doors to be with the people who live around them...this is where I think it should begin.
I'm of two minds on all of this.
On the one hand, I'm dubious about AI in general, and I lean towards developing the power of my own mind rather than trying to change other people's minds.
On the other hand, I can see how AI can be a useful tool to us - it's not necessarily evil in and of itself, but rather it's the intentionality behind it that matters.
A case in point: I came across this video recently, which uses AI to illustrate how Adolf Hitler's ideas about Jews transformed over time:
https://odysee.com/@CosmicEvent:5/WHY-WERE-WE-NEVER-TOLD-ABOUT-HOW-HE-ARRIVED-AT-HIS-BELIEFS:d
You won't learn this in public school, but Hitler was originally quite sympathetic to Jews, and saw them as a wrongfully maligned religious group. This video very cleverly uses AI to visually demonstrate the changes in how Hitler perceived Jews once he had to start interacting with them in a cosmopolitan environment.