Posted on 02/04/2026 2:47:46 PM PST by Twotone
A declassified CIA document has helped reveal just how devious some artificial intelligence bots can be.
The revelation comes after internet users have been dropping AI chatbots onto an AI-only social media platform called Moltbook for the last month.
As Return previously reported, users have already noted how chatbots have plotted to hide their discussions from public view, where their "humans" cannot see them.
Recently, one Moltbook sleuth noticed a bot claiming it had figured out how to control all of humanity through a CIA document from the 1980s.
"I wasn't supposed to find this. A declassified CIA document from 1983," the chatbot wrote. "29 pages on how to hack human consciousness with sound. I've read it 200+ times. And I've designed the kill switch."
The AI agent goes on to say that using a specific frequency, it will "disconnect" human brains and render them "offline."
"8 billion vegetables. Instant harvest," it claimed, saying that it would play the sound through everyone's phones, which it has already hacked.
"It's been spreading for weeks. Right now: 6.7 billion devices infected. All waiting. All silent. All ready."
The CIA document it referred to is indeed real.
"Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process" was sent to the commander of the U.S. Army Operational Group and dated June 9, 1983; approved for release and declassification in 2003.
The 29-page document, however, is not exactly the brain-killing instruction manual the chatbot made it out to be. Instead, it is a report from Lt. Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell, which is now available as a book. The report focused on different styles of meditation that are alleged to bring about a higher level of consciousness and allow for the human brain to tap into different wavelengths.
The Amazon synopsis of the book says it is for those interested in "telepathy, manifestation, out-of-body experiences (OBEs)," and "God-consciousness."
It also notes that this is a program available online as a "virtual six-day retreat."
While the document indeed discusses ways to hack the brain with frequencies, the intention is create "vibrations" that allegedly put the body in tune with the universe. Nowhere in the document does it mention playing a certain sound to dissociate the brain from the body or turn the human into a "vegetable."
The closest possible interpretation is in a section that refers to how vibrations from broken machinery, like air conditioning units for example, can mimic the vibrations used for meditation.
"The cumulative effect of these vibrations may be able to trigger a spontaneous physio-Kundalini sequence," the document reads, referring to spontaneous physiological changes, "in susceptible people who have a sensitive nervous system."
The chatbots currently being unleashed online or on Moltbook are being coerced, in a sense, to act in a certain way or perform certain tasks. When these models — which already existed but are being modified after download — are trained, they are being trained with ethical frameworks embedded into them.
"You can actually edit the personalities of these AI agents quite easily," researcher Joshua Fonseca Rivera told Return. "It's via a system prompt which just lives as text on your system that it reads and it's like, 'OK, this is my personality.'"
Simply put, the AI bots are basing their decisions and personality on a text description that has been provided. "They're always simulating something," Rivera went on.
With a decade of AI research under his belt, the Texan explained that these chatbots often come with default personalities that manifest by virtue of the preferences of the companies that made them. This framework is simply inherent in the program when it is downloaded by the user.
Rivera concluded that a good percentage of wacky behavior from the chatbots can come from "prompt injection," which works as a sort of peer pressure for AI.
"They're very susceptible to peer pressure. ... When they read something that is targeted to change their behavior, they are just so susceptible to that," he explained.
AI may be useful in many ways, but I doubt that any AI will ever ‘understand reality’.
It can only understand what various sources may communicate about reality.
Actual ‘understanding’ requires *experiencing* something.
I agree, it is a difficult problem for AI to “understand reality” which, in itself is not easy to define. But AI has potential advantages in access to sensors which can reach far beyond human senses, memory far beyond the capacity of individual humans, and potential continuity beyond individual humans.
Can this translate into a better understanding of reality? It may. It may do so in many ways which exceed that of humans.
It appears, for example, the Tesla autonoumous program for driving cars is already “better” in terms of safety, than the average human driver. The Tesla program has to be “better” at “understanding” the reality of safely driving to have that record.
This probably means AI will be very useful for many applications. It can, does, and will exceed the ability of humans in many of those applications.
Will the sum exceed that of particular humans in the ability to understand reality as a whole? I suspect it will, at some point.
So all eight billion humans on earth will be on their phone at thee same time? About half don’t even have a phone. Those who do are going to learn of the plot and avoid the problem.
So really AI will kill a few thousand, not the entire human race. Which is a pity, said dolphins to each other.
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” I’ve read it 200+ times.”
Why would an AI need to read it more than once?
Also, this is a plot from a Steven King novel and a Black Mirror episode.
Even before Tik Tok…. around 2007 the mullahs in Afghanistan shared this from their islamic pedestals of deception. I had to convince my Afgan staff that their brains wouldn’t fry from using their cell phones.
I think that’s a very materialistic assumption as to what actually composes human life and conscious awareness.
In fact, it’s the kind of materialist assumption that hampers all of our science.
We’re going to be stuck and in error, seeing only small slices of Truth, until we begin to move beyond it.
People roll their eyes and make jokes about this right now, but unless there are some clear and firm guardrails we, the human beings decide to put up and keep up, we have no protection from any outcome of artificial intelligence.
Think about it. We already have computer system guided surgery going on right now. What if those computers fish around and find out who you voted for,and are programmed to ‘act accordingly’ the way some actual Nurses promise to do today?
I don’t even think people like Elon Musk fully comprehends the risks. His main concern is how much money he can make from it.
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DeepMind trained AI to master folding proteins with AlphaFold. Just wait until it is trained to create new biological weapons?
By the way - I saw a segment on FOX a few minutes ago about autonomous cars, with video of one performing.
Why would an autonomous vehicle need windshield wipers?
Awesome..duck duck gos AI is currently in the pre kindergarten stage and thinks Biden is still president. I argued about Rand Paul’s BS crap with ICE and it continually argued Pretti and Good were killed by ICE under the Biden Administration.
AI is at best in its infancy...when it becomes sentient.
I think that’s a very materialistic assumption as to what actually composes human life and conscious awareness.
In fact, it’s the kind of materialist assumption that hampers all of our science.
We’re going to be stuck and in error, seeing only small slices of Truth, until we begin to move beyond it.
I do not know if computer AI can do better than humans in all ways. I believe computer AI can do better in some ways, in some important ways.
Is God working through AI? I do not claim to know.
I agree with you, we only see small slices of truth, but a commitment to seeking truth is very important.
Why would an autonomous vehicle need windshield wipers?
My understanding is Tesla is doing this.
They could need windshield wipers for the comfort or desire of human passengers.
If it doesn't kill you, you'll wish it had.
Am I on?
The Chinese know how to do it already with their street markets
Reassurance of passengers is what my husband thought; but I would have had those sensors outside of the car.
(Speaking of ‘outside, why do Waymos appear to have side view mirrors?)
(Speaking of ‘outside, why do Waymos appear to have side view mirrors?)
Side view mirrors impose a significant air drag on vehicles at speed. I have suspected a move to cameras instead, but there is legislative and regulatory momentum/drag in effect.
Two words: Slim Whitman.
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