I’m going to take a wide guess that this technology (whatever it is) is not going to sit well with freedom loving people. What few there are left.
First of all I didn’t read the story.
Secondly, I think computer scientists have really figured out how to create useful artificial intelligence. My understanding is that the use graphics cards that can run huge numbers of parallel processes to look through any type of electronic information for patterns, for example corners in photos. Then those low level patterns are fed into another level of graphics card power parallel processing to find higher level patterns, such as lines leading to corners. This process continues of processing to find patterns continues until a useful conclusion is reached, such as this is a box.
This technique is how Google categorizes photos, such as which ones are of cats.
I imagine many groups are trying to use the technique to find financial patterns.