[Big Red Badger]

Well
Watch SciFi movies’ from Soylent Green to IDIOCRACY. From Bladerunner to
13 Monkeys and you can get a sense for what our Overlords are capable of but Not necessarily planned.
These are Evil Bozos’ but Not to intelligent.
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[EEGator]

I’ve watched all those movies, and then some.
Same for reading many books in the genre.
PKD, RAH, et al...