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• Dan 26

  4/28/2026, 5:37:43 PM

  Here’s Julian Assange talking about how AI will make this matter much worse: Julian Assange was warning years ago that we could one day expect artificial intelligence to be used in this way, saying that the growing ability of the powerful to manipulate public opinion using AI “differs from traditional attempts to shape culture and politics by operating at a scale, speed, and increasingly at a subtlety, that appears likely to eclipse human counter-measures.” Pointing out how AI could already outmaneuver even the greatest chess players in the world, Assange described in 2017 how programs which can operate with exponentially more tactical intelligence than the human mind can manipulate the field of available information so effectively and subtly that people won’t even know they are being manipulated. People will be living in a world that they think they understand and know about, but they’ll unknowingly be viewing only empire-approved information. “When you have AI programs harvesting all the search queries and YouTube videos someone uploads it starts to lay out perceptual influence campaigns, twenty to thirty moves ahead,” Assange said. “This starts to become totally beneath the level of human perception.” 

• Dan 26

  4/28/2026, 5:24:59 PM

  I also believe that people are most vulnerable to propaganda when they have the mindset that they are immune from it. That’s why pundits have shows titled no spin zone or no agenda, it lures people into this mindset that they are not being propagandized, which is when they are the most vulnerable. 

• Dan 26

  4/28/2026, 5:22:18 PM

  I think Americans are constantly told they shouldn’t talk about politics, which makes it very difficult to politically develop into maturity. They get information from their screens and don’t speak to one another in order to process the information, and disinformation.