I could see the endgame of AI as surveillance and manipulation of information to achieve political goals. In the old days, expensive intelligence agencies and

I could see the endgame of AI as surveillance and manipulation of information to achieve political goals. In the old days, expensive intelligence agencies and security services had to work hard to figure out targets' affiliations and beliefs, to propagandize, and to subvert opponents (or one's own society). Social media then persuaded users that it was a good idea to list their family, friends, and associates in a giant database along with their political beliefs, hopes and fears, and pictures of their lunch, and its algorithms surfaced whatever the makers wanted (cf. TikTok). Now, AI is poised not only to comb through what e-mails and files hadn't been available before, but also to surface or even generate information, giving it a prime spot to censor or manipulate what we see.