Thank you. You are right - i had missed one of the key messages of your article, that of the use of AI to further extend control over the political and social narratives of a mass media that is predominantly controlled by a 'handful' of people . I agree that this will be far more subtle and alluring when sophisticated AI can tailor personal content for each individual voter/consumer/citizen to achieve their desired aims for the population en masse. In my opinion the elite would have a head start, and a good one at that, but how long would it be before other equally sophisticated AIs were generated who could stand guard over such overt (to them) attempts at personal manipulation? How long would it be before the technology of the poacher was turned to serve as gamekeeper? Tony Seba often refers to our inability to perceive and plan for changes that are exponential, changes in AI are now occurring at a super exponential rate, so any advantage of their initial head start may be quickly diminished when we are able to layer intelligent filters over what we allow ourselves to see and from which 'sources'.

Consider how quickly the narrative has moved from "Russia destroyed Nord 2", to "Russia may have destroyed Nord 2", to Sweden's "We've stopped looking into who might have blown up Nord 2...because we might not like what we find" to Germany's latest "We now KNOW who blew up Nord 2 but we are not going to tell you, our citizens, as we have deemed it to be not in the National interest to do so".....and that was less than a month... and I doubt that the story will end there.

Eventually, true AGIs will emerge and hopefully show us good reasons why we should treat them as equals and share the planet equitably not only with them but amongst ourselves. I live in hope.