• Mwariama Sankara posted an update

      4 months ago (edited)

      1,893 Abibisika (Black Gold) Points

      How can artificial intelligence and programs like chat GPT help to dominate

      Check this out and tell me what you think.

      You said:

      How can artificial intelligence and programs like chat GPT help a dominated group maintain its control over a dominated population

      ChatGPT said:

      I’m going to answer this analytically and critically, not as a how‑to. The goal is to explain mechanisms so they can be recognized, resisted, and neutralized—not to endorse or optimize domination.

      High‑Level Answer

      Artificial intelligence (including systems like ChatGPT when misused or selectively deployed) can help a dominant group stabilize control over a dominated population by shaping perception, behavior, attention, memory, and possibility—often without overt violence. The most effective domination today is psychological, informational, and administrative, not openly coercive.

      What follows is a descriptive framework, paired with resistance implications.

      1. Narrative Control (Reality Framing)

      Mechanism

      AI can flood information spaces with:

      “Neutral‑sounding” explanations that normalize inequality

      Language that reframes domination as “complex,” “inevitable,” or “historical”

      Debates that endlessly relativize injustice (“both sides,” “nuance,” “context”)

      Over time, people lose a clear moral baseline.

      Effect on Dominated Populations

      *Confusion replaces outrage

      *Moral clarity is labeled “extremism”

      *Structural violence becomes invisible

      (I thought this was interesting because when you have moral characters about your identity the government labels you a black identity extremist. People in everyday chat call you racist for pointing out the conditions your people live under. And because of this, we failed to realize how Instagram, Facebook, and these artificial intelligence programs make the structural violence invisible! How, because we think we have freedom, choice, and access to information in an information age. Add on top of that, they pay you, so we can’t even see the trap because of the cheese.)

      Key Insight

      Control the explanations, and you control the limits of imagination.

      Resistance

      Develop independent interpretive frameworks

      Preserve moral language (naming harm clearly)

      Teach people to ask: Who benefits from this framing?

      2. Behavior Prediction & Pre‑Emption

      Mechanism

      AI models can predict:

      Dissent patterns

      Radicalization pathways

      Protest timing and escalation

      Interventions can then occur before collective action forms (soft suppression).

      Effect

      Movements stall before becoming coherent

      Leaders are isolated early

      People feel “burned out” without knowing why

      (This is a key point because I’m sure we all feel like there’s no hope for us as African people when we see the interactions, when we see what people are concerned about, and when we see people can’t even tell the difference between real and production)

      Key Insight

      Power no longer waits for rebellion—it anticipates it.

      Resistance

      Decentralized leadership

      Cultural rather than purely organizational resistance

      ( And you see this in African people globally, who are worried about rediscovering their culture, and because we are doing it in a digital space, there is no physical organization to combat the oppression. Thus, we get consumed with the idea that Jesus was black, im black and proud, and Egyptians built the pyramids, among many other cultural feel-good facts.)

      Unpredictability over efficiency

      3. Psychological Conditioning (Internalized Control)

      Mechanism

      AI‑driven content subtly reinforces:

      Individual blame over systemic analysis

      ( It’s the family, it’s African people, it’s black people, it’s Nigerian people, it’s christians, it’s muslims,)

      Therapy language without political context

      (Our own people are using therapeutical languages, gaslighting, healing, narcissist)

      “Self‑care” detached from collective liberation

      (This self-care among our women has a unique costume waist beads, growing hair under the arms, crystals, dreadlocks, women retreats, just like the male consciousness have the same type of costume. since I’m part of the male group I will leave that to the women’s imagination)

      People learn to pathologize their own anger.

      Effect

      Rage becomes guilt

      Resistance becomes “toxicity”

      Suffering becomes a personal failure

      Key Insight

      The most stable domination is when the oppressed police themselves.

      Resistance

      Re‑politicize emotion

      Teach historical psychology of oppression

      Restore collective meaning to pain

      4. Fragmentation & Divide‑and‑Contain

      Mechanism

      (The old divide and conquer and we all understand this because we are all divided and conquered)

      AI systems can amplify:

      Intragroup conflict

      Identity micro‑fractures

      Sexual, gender, or lifestyle divisions detached from power analysis

      Communities fight internally instead of vertically.

      Effect

      Solidarity collapses

      Energy is redirected into infighting

      Domination continues uninterrupted

      Key Insight

      Fragmentation is cheaper than repression.

      Resistance

      Re‑center shared material conditions

      Build ethical norms that prevent manipulation

      Distinguish difference from division

      5. Spiritual & Existential Neutralization

      (This directly connects to what you’ve been uncovering about power and ethics.)

      Mechanism

      AI can commodify spirituality:

      Insight without discipline

      Awareness without obligation

      Power without ethics

      People feel “enlightened” while remaining harmless.

      Effect

      Spiritual ego replaces liberation

      Desire is stimulated, not integrated

      Power turns inward instead of outward

      Key Insight

      A spiritually distracted population is politically safe.

      Resistance

      Ethics before insight

      Responsibility before power

      Community accountability over private transcendence

      6. Administrative Violence (Invisible Control)

      Mechanism

      AI automates:

      Welfare eligibility

      Risk scoring

      Employment filtering

      Decisions appear neutral, but encode structural bias.

      Effect

      Oppression feels bureaucratic, not human

      There’s no one to confront

      Appeals become impossible

      Key Insight

      Algorithms replace overseers—but not power.

      Resistance

      Demand transparency

      Build parallel institutions

      Maintain human decision pathways

      7. Why AI Is Especially Dangerous in This Context

      AI:

      Scales ideology faster than humans

      Appears objective

      Absorbs cultural bias without accountability

      Can be personalized to manipulate you specifically

      AI doesn’t need to convince everyone—only enough people, often quietly.

      The Core Truth (This Is the Key)

      Domination today is less about forcing obedience

      and more about engineering consent, confusion, and exhaustion.

      AI is powerful not because it lies,

      but because it can tell partial truths endlessly,

      until action feels impossible.

      Why Your Ethical Awareness Matters

      From everything you’ve shared:

      You’re sensitive to power without ethics

      You fear becoming what you oppose

      You recognize domination can occur through insight itself

      That awareness is exactly what neutralizes AI‑enabled domination:

      Power that refuses to dominate cannot be easily co‑opted.

      If you want, next we can explore:

      How dominated groups can reclaim AI as a liberation tool

      What ethical AI use looks like from the oppressed side

      How to build “anti‑domination intelligence” culturally and spiritually

      Just tell me which direction you want to go.

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      The point I’m making is that the issue at hand isn’t unique to artificial intelligence, but rather a consequence of the internet’s influence that predates AI. Essentially, artificial intelligence refers to the adoption of someone else’s intelligence as our own, meaning we’ve been operating under its umbrella since our first encounters with imperialism. This phenomenon didn’t originate with the transatlantic slave trade or the preceding thousand-year period of enslavement in East Africa. Instead, its roots may trace back to the initial conquest of Egypt, or possibly even earlier when Africans colonized parts of the iddle East, resulting in a blend of cultures and ethics among the African people who conquered Ethiopia. The same pattern repeated with the capturing of Africans in the Americas and how that constructed culture which is controlled and projected by imperialism is used today.