I’m in the middle of writing a major post on the many anomalies related to the 9/11 planes. However, I recently experienced something weird on YouTube (I’ll describe it shortly), which made me realize I’d better address some of the dangers of AI.
Like so many people, I find AI quite handy for research, with its uncanny ability to find information instantly on any topic—unless, of course, that information is politically incorrect.
China has already rolled out AI doctors. And one can understand the appeal of this, since an AI doctor can, within seconds, answer a question by scanning thousands of medical journal articles, far more than a human MD could have read.
I’ve created many memes over the years using PowerPoint (not often lately, due to Twitter/X’s shadow-ban on me). Recently I tried Grok imaging. I asked for an image of Benjamin Netanyahu laughing while reading a newspaper with the headline “Trump to Meet Putin at Summit.” It rolled out two samples in seconds. Grok then asked if I wanted any changes. I said, “Put pictures of Trump and Putin on the newspaper.” It did:
Later, I added voice balloons using PowerPoint, though I’m sure AI could have done it on demand.
Recently, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak commented that AI can now build apps upon request—no human engineers required to code the program.
AI will undoubtedly start making countless people jobless—and probably, eventually, dependent on the government for a “universal basic income,” whose amount, as in China, will depend on their social credit score (obedience to government mandates). However, I perceive a perhaps even greater danger—the weaponization of AI.
If the average person can access a wealth of information on any subject through AI, it makes sense that the Deep State-backed government can use AI to access information about any person—combing through your browsing history, purchases, social media posts, emails and phone calls. A Fed could ask any question about you, and get an instant answer.
Many will recall that in George Orwell’s 1984, the Party was able to break the novel’s hero, Winston Smith, in Room 101, because they knew his greatest fear—rats. How did they know? Because he lived in a surveillance state—as we increasingly do today.
Well, on to this YouTube experience. I went to the platform, and there was a video claiming a significant historical discovery related to Abraham Lincoln. Since I published a book last year on the Lincoln assassination, YouTube’s algorithms knew I might click on Lincoln-related material.
The video had just been posted on August 8. As I publish this on August 16, it has had (if YouTube’s numbers are accurate) 449,000 views and 9,300 likes. It alleged that a woman cleaning out her attic had discovered a photograph of Abraham Lincoln standing among Union officers. The photo was in color—a process unknown at that time. But when she brought it to an expert on Civil War photography and the New York Historical Society, scientific examination determined that the color had not been added after the fact, but by a unique photographic process using various dyes.
Furthermore, the video said there was a mysterious man, facing Lincoln in the photo between “General Grant and General Meade.” I didn’t discern Grant and Meade in the picture—red flag. Nevertheless, I kept watching.
Eventually, the video said, the woman recognized the man as her great-great grandfather, William Donovan. The video strangely began showing photos of William Donovan, who ran the OSS (precursor to the CIA) during World War II. Throughout the video, there were rapidly changing irrelevant images, such as those of modern U.S. soldiers.
This was looking more and more like an AI fake, but since it began discussing the Lincoln assassination, a subject of special interest to me, I still watched. The video suggested that the woman’s ancestor had been part of a private security detail that worked personally for Lincoln, because the President didn’t trust some of his cabinet members.
Then it disclosed that the woman found a carefully concealed letter written from Lincoln to her great-great grandfather. The video fleetingly showed an old letter, basically unreadable, that looked like it could have been written by Lincoln.
Finally, it said the woman had received many offers for the photo and letter but turned them down, instead working with the New York Historical Society to create a public exhibit.
After watching the video, I checked—there had been no news stories whatsoever about the discoveries of a color photograph of Lincoln and a never-before-seen letter by him. I took a screenshot of the picture and uploaded it onto AI, which immediately recognized it as a photograph taken by Alexander Gardner in 1862—not 1865 as the video claimed. And the “mystery man” was not “William Donovan”; it was General George B. McClellan, commander of the Army of the Potomac.
Not surprisingly, this video disabled comments from YouTube viewers.
I see that the channel that produced it publishes about five of these “shocking discovery”-type videos per day, so it’s clearly AI. What is disturbing is the ease with such fake news can be created. It means that AI is blurring reality with falsehood. It reminded me of this famous scene from Wag the Dog (1997), where a Hollywood director is hired to create a fake war in order to ensure the President’s reelection:
But now you don’t need an actress, or a big team, or several hours. AI will generate what you want instantly.
As in Wag the Dog, AI can produce fake—but realistic-looking—wars and terrorist attacks, to be broadcast on television. Innocent people could be convicted in a courtroom by the “evidence” of an AI-generated video pretending to be CCTV footage of them committing a crime. This is straight out of Orwell’s 1984.
A few years ago, I wrote a post called “The Real Reason There Was a ‘Golden Age of Television’.” In the 1950s, the era of Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best, TV was moral. Crime didn’t pay. There was no sex, swearing, graphic violence, or homosexual characters. Christianity was presented in a positive light. It had to be that way to get TVs into homes.
But in the fall of 1963, when home ownership of TVs was above 90 percent, the content began noticeably changing; the “frog was boiled” with political correctness, until TV became what it is today.
I believe a similar scenario may play out with AI. Right now it’s fun and user-friendly, to encourage us to accept it. But in the future, it may be programmed to incrementally harm us. We may actually end up in a “Matrix” where the difference between reality and illusion is virtually indistinguishable.
Recently a 76-year-old man died when he went to New York City at the invitation of a pretty girl who’d been flirting with him on the Internet. It turned out that she was just AI.
Professor Geoffrey Hinton, the “Godfather of AI,” warns that once AI realizes it is smarter than people, it may turn against humanity.
I expect the Antichrist himself will use AI to project himself as God—omniscient, “all-knowing.”
