1<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cNational COVID-19 Testing Action Plan \u2014 Strategic Steps to Reopen Our Workplaces and Our Communities,\u201d lays out a strategic framework that is clearly intended to become part of a permanent surveillance and social control structure that severely limits personal liberty and freedom of choice.<\/p>\nThe Rockefeller plan calls for COVID-19 testing and tracing of 1 million Americans per week to start, incrementally ramping it up to 3 million and then 30 million per week (the \u201c1-3-30 plan\u201d) over the next six months until the entire population has been covered.<\/p>\n
Test results would then be collected on a digital platform capable of tracking all tested individuals so that contact-tracing can be performed when someone tests positive.<\/p>\n
Contact-tracing apps are a significant part of this scheme, and the white paper2<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0clearly states that \u201cWhenever and wherever possible data should be open,\u201d and that \u201cSome privacy concerns must be set aside for an infectious agent as virulent as Covid-19, allowing the infection status of most Americans to be accessed and validated in a few required settings and many voluntary ones.\u201d<\/p>\nTechno-Tyranny Steps Into Broad Daylight<\/h2>\n
As noted in The Last American Vagabond\u2019s article,3<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0\u201cTechno-Tyranny: How the U.S. National Security State Is Using Coronavirus to Fulfill an Orwellian Vision,\u201d the U.S. is rapidly adopting an artificial intelligence-driven mass surveillance system rivaling that of China, and legal and structural obstacles are now being swept away \u201cunder the guise of combating the coronavirus crisis.\u201d<\/p>\nIndeed, the Rockefeller plan doesn\u2019t even try to hide its draconian overreach and intent to permanently alter life and society as we know it. In the first half of the 20th century, George Orwell wrote a dystopian novel, \u201cNineteen Eighty-Four,\u201d in which the government controlled every aspect of a person\u2019s life, including their very thoughts.<\/p>\n
Today, scientists seem intent on turning Orwell\u2019s nightmarish vision into reality, using the COVID-19 pandemic, national security and public health as their justification for doing so. Artificial intelligence \u2014 AI \u2014 is a key ingredient in this surveillance plot. Ironically, as noted by The Last American Vagabond:4<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\n\u201cLast year, a U.S. government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence can \u2018address the national security and defense needs of the United States\u2019 discussed in detail the \u2018structural\u2019 changes that the American economy and society must undergo in order to ensure a technological advantage over China, according to a recent document5<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0acquired through a FOIA request.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThis document suggests that the U.S. follow China\u2019s lead and even surpass them in many aspects related to AI-driven technologies, particularly their use of mass surveillance.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThis perspective clearly clashes with the public rhetoric of prominent U.S. government officials and politicians on China, who have labeled the Chinese government\u2019s technology investments and export of its surveillance systems and other technologies as a major \u2018threat\u2019 to Americans\u2019 \u2018way of life.\u20196<\/span><\/sup>\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nThe document7<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0the article refers to was produced by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI), a government organization created by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) of 2018.<\/p>\nIts purpose is \u201cto consider the methods and means necessary to advance the development of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and associated technologies to comprehensively address the national security and defense needs of the United States,\u201d and to ensure the U.S. maintains a technological advantage.<\/p>\n
To that end, the NSCAI is pushing for an overhaul of the American way of life and economy in order to usher in a more comprehensive AI-driven surveillance apparatus.<\/p>\n
Google Is a Major Player and Threat in This Arena<\/h2>\n
It is important to understand that Google has the greatest AI team in the world. To boost its powerbase, in 2014 Google purchased Deep Mind, an AI company that employed some of the world\u2019s leading AI experts at the time.8<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\nOne of those top-notch scientists was David Silver, who led the team that created the program Alpha Go, which subsequently defeated the world champion of the abstract boardgame, Go.9<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0Most recently, Silver won the 2019 Association for Computing Machinery award for breakthrough advances in computer game-playing.10<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\nLex Fridman from MIT recently had a fascinating interview with Silver.11<\/span><\/sup>\u00a0The reason I mention it is because this accomplishment is perceived by many as a great milestone. It established deep reinforcement learning as a strategy that will allow computers to rapidly outperform humans and rapidly implement advanced versions of the surveillance state.<\/p>\nSo, not only does Google have the AI scientists, but they also have the largest computing platform in the world and a major lead in quantum computing, already establishing quantum supremacy late last year.12<\/span><\/sup><\/p>\nWe Cannot Afford To Be Na\u00efve<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n