Control of the brain

If you wanted to control large masses of people, where would you start?
How they create, consume and distribute information.

How would you force adoption?
Threaten their livelihood and financial security.

How could you make it a religion?
Create a faith-based paradigm where AI is not judged by what it can do today but instead by what it might do in the future.

How would you control major institutions (like higher ed) that might fight back? Target students and question the efficacy of modern education.

How could you make it a point of national pride?
Create the illusion of another cold war. create fear that this control could be weaponized against us.

How could you make this control feel inevitable?
With mountain tons of hype and money. use LinkedIn to promote pro-AI content and focus all VC investment on ai.

Why does it feel like this AI era was all baked up in some technocratic think tank?