by Mark Keenan, published on Global Research, December 9, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) is sold as neutral, objective, and inevitable.
We are told it will manage economies, optimize medicine, guide education, and even help govern society. But beneath the marketing lies a question of power and control:
AI itself is only a technological instrument. What matters is how it is used — and, above all, who controls it. Like an axe, used to warm a home by chopping wood for a fire, it can also become a weapon in the service of power. And like the printing press, it can spread truth at unprecedented speed — or flood entire societies with coordinated illusion.
Whoever controls AI controls the narrative. And whoever controls the narrative controls the economic system and influences the collective of minds.
The illusion of artificial intelligence is not that it thinks — it cannot think — but that it appears to know. And in an age where knowledge now shapes markets, behavior, and belief, this illusion that ‘AI knows’ is becoming the central nervous system of a new technocratic economy.
As I wrote previously, the AI matrix is no longer simulating reality — it now instructs it, forming a digitally orchestrated collective consciousness — until, before long, the matrix is talking to the matrix.
1. Who Controls AI Controls Propaganda
AI does not emerge from nature. It is trained, funded, filtered, and governed by institutions: governments, corporations, defense agencies, financial conglomerates, and ideological bodies. Every dataset reflects editorial choices. Every algorithm reflects policy priorities. Every data boundary and “safety guideline” reflects political power.
Just as Facebook, Google, and X suppress information through “content guidelines,” AI now enforces consensus through automated filtering. The difference is scale and speed. What once required human censorship now occurs instantly and invisibly.
AI does not merely moderate speech. It shapes what can be known.
When AI systems decide what information is “authoritative,” what research is “safe,” what questions are “permitted,” and what history is “acceptable,” propaganda is no longer delivered as opinion. It is delivered as neutral machine output.
One of the clearest examples is climate doctrine: AI systems reliably reproduce only the official manmade CO₂ narrative, while dissenting scientific positions are algorithmically filtered out. What appears as “neutral information” is in fact pre-curated ideological output. At the same time, the vast data centers that power the very AI systems preaching carbon austerity consume energy on the scale of small cities — a contradiction buried beneath the rhetoric of “digital efficiency.”
The significance of this is far greater than information management. Climate doctrine is no longer merely a narrative; it is becoming an automated policy engine. Carbon footprints are being converted into digital data points, emissions into financial risk scores, and “sustainability” into programmable compliance metrics. What began as a scientific claim has evolved into a digital enforcement architecture. I have examined the scientific and political foundations of this system in the book Climate CO₂ Hoax. AI now provides the administrative mechanism through which that narrative may be imposed without debate.
As I wrote previously:
“AI programs, such as ChatGPT, are sophisticated, but dead, machinery tools designed to keep you enslaved to the consensus narratives and control ideologies of the slave matrix. The matrix seeks blind obedience to a fabricated reality in an attempt to dis-empower you.”
And because machines appear impersonal, their authority feels unquestionable. This is how control now works — not through force, but through administration.
2. AI as Imperfect Knowledge – Digital Illusion Masquerading as Truth
AI is just a sophisticated machine database. It provides much information on how to complete complex tasks, but in many areas it cannot provide correct, complete, and unfiltered knowledge.
On subjects such as climate science and virology, dissenting researchers are filtered out and critical debate is restricted. On history, entire areas of human knowledge are rewritten or filtered out from the mainstream. In economics, it appears that communist-style central planning is being reintroduced as algorithmic optimization through digital currencies.
AI operates on imperfect and politically filtered knowledge. It draws from an ocean of data that is bounded by ideological walls. What falls outside technocratic consensus simply does not exist to the machine. AI does not seek truth; it reproduces patterns within the limits of its training.
Digital logic alone does not deliver progress. The greatest human breakthroughs did not arise from pattern prediction. They came through intuition, inspiration, and insight — faculties that have always been understood as gifts from God, given according to time, place, and circumstance.
All true knowledge descends from a higher source. AI only rearranges fragments of what already exists, and many of those fragments are wrong.
When the head is corrupted, the body descends into chaos. As Shakespeare warned in Hamlet, when the mind of the ruler is diseased, the whole state reflects the sickness. The same law now applies to AI: when corrupted narratives and false premises are encoded into algorithmic systems, those distortions seep into human consciousness itself.
And when machine narratives replace human intuition and god-given discernment, society slowly loses its spiritual compass.
3. The Technocratic Attempt to Replace God
Life and knowledge did not arise by accident. They were given.
Yet a new class of atheistic technocrats now seeks to construct an AI administrator for the planet — a digital god to manage money, speech, medicine, education, and behavior. This is not merely technological ambition. It is metaphysical rebellion.
They are not trying to improve humanity. They are trying to replace the source of humanity.
Across civilizations, awareness was never understood as a machine function. It was always understood as a divine gift. Consciousness, intuition, inspiration, and insight were seen as the God-given roots of discovery. The ancient Sanskrit word cetana describes living consciousness bestowed from the divine; early Christian Gnostics spoke of a divine spark within; Greek philosophers of nous; Christianity of the Logos. Whatever the language, the intuition is the same: consciousness and higher knowledge are rooted in a higher reality, not manufactured by circuits. I explore this subject of descending knowledge in the book Godless Fake Science.
To confuse human awareness with processing power is to mistake the mirror for the face. The fundamental question is therefore not technical. It is spiritual.
Who is your master? With important questions that guide human life itself will you accept instruction from the living source of wisdom — or from the artificial matrix curated by invisible financial and political powers?
AI presents itself as a neutral guide. In reality, it is a false god of instruction, demanding trust, obedience, and surrender of judgment. If you forget to appreciate God-given awareness you are in danger of illusion.
4. The Economic System of the Machine Mind
AI is now becoming the operating system of the global economy.
Data centers inflate GDP. Algorithmic trading replaces human judgment.
Programmable money replaces financial independence. It is not merely a financial innovation; it is the missing enforcement layer for carbon rationing, energy restrictions, and behavioral compliance tied to climate policy. Once financial access becomes conditional upon algorithmic climate scores, dissent no longer needs to be censored — it can be economically disabled. At that point, debate ends not through force, but through automated exclusion.
Automation displaces labor while concentrating ownership.
Retirement funds, debt markets, and national budgets are increasingly tied to AI-dependent corporations.
The economy is being restructured around machine cognition rather than human value.
And once this system is deemed by government as “too strategic to fail,” public wealth becomes the backstop for private technological power. The risks are socialized. The profits remain private.
The economy no longer serves human life. Human life is being reorganized to serve the machine economy. This is not free enterprise. It is communist-style algorithmic central planning disguised as innovation.
Yet this machine economy contains a paradox: once human labour is no longer essential, the very foundation of demand, value, and purchasing power begins to collapse.
5. When Labour Disappears, So Does the System
Most public debate asks, “Which jobs will survive AI?” A deeper question is whether the current economic systems will survive at all.
In the near term, AI could potentially hollow out law, software engineering, media creation, middle management, and diagnostic medicine because they are built on pattern recognition domains where machines outperform humans. The result will not simply be job displacement, but a structural unraveling of labour as the foundation of the modern economic order.
If AI replaces 30–50% of workers, it does not merely “disrupt careers.” It destroys purchasing power. No income means no demand; no demand means no real economy. The very corporations that fired their workers with AI will discover they have also fired their customers.
Capitalism, socialism, and communism differ in ownership and distribution, but all presuppose one shared foundation: that human labour remains central to production, demand, and economic meaning. When machines do the administrative work and a handful of platforms own and dictate the knowledge infrastructure, that foundation collapses and this “ism” or that “ism” becomes somewhat irrelevant.
Universal Basic Income and similar technocratic schemes risk concentrating unprecedented power in the hands of those who control the code, the data, and the monetary rails—turning economic life into a programmable rationing system. In such a model, economic freedom does not disappear through force, but through conditional access, a structure that moves beyond both capitalism and classical communism toward a new form of digital totalitarianism.
In that world, AI is no longer a tool of the market. It becomes the god of the system itself.
The same banking and economic structures that built the modern debt economy—analyzed in the book Demonic Economics—are now rebuilding themselves inside digital systems. What was once enforced through credit and interest is now migrating into code and conditional access. This transition from financial domination to algorithmic domination represents not a break with the old system, but its technological acceleration.
6. The Colonized Mind – The Destruction of Universities – The Emergence of the Chatversity
The colonization of education reveals the deeper logic of the AI economy. Universities are now becoming credential factories: students use AI to generate assignments, professors use AI to grade them, administrators partner with AI corporations while cutting faculty and core academic programs. Learning is reduced to data throughput, and degrees drift toward meaninglessness. Under the language of “innovation”, public education is being privatized, deskilled, and subordinated to corporate platforms.
What is sold as progress is in fact the slow destruction of critical thought in exchange for efficiency metrics. When thinking itself is outsourced to machines, education ceases to form minds and instead trains operators of systems. This transformation is not accidental — it mirrors the broader economic shift in which human judgment, labor, and discernment are displaced by algorithmic management serving centralized power.
As Global Research contributor Ronald Purser recently observed, what is being sold as innovation in higher education increasingly looks like surrender. Universities respond to AI-generated work with more layers of automated surveillance and detection. The system collapses into a self-reinforcing loop — a closed circuit in which machines generate the content, machines evaluate it, and human judgment steadily disappears.
If AI can write the essays, complete the assignments, and even grade the feedback, what is left of education itself? Students pay for credentials they did not truly earn, lecturers mark work the students did not produce, and employers inherit degrees that certify nothing.
The university was once a place ordered toward the universal search for truth and the freedom of thought. The word itself derives from uni-verse — the “one song” of God. Yet the technocratic project now seeks to replace that divine harmony with an AI “Chat-versity”: a terminal of automated answers rather than a sanctuary for human understanding.
7. The Puppetmaster Future?
If humanity surrenders its inner guidance to machines, the result will not be liberation — but a digitally orchestrated collective consciousness, in which human society mimics the instructions of a digital system with an unseen hidden hand.
AI dazzles with speed and convenience. It solves complex tasks while quietly reshaping thought itself. Before long, the population begins to repeat machine-generated memes, machine-generated narratives, and machine-generated morals — believing them to be their own.
This is how consensus reality is manufactured. The deeper question is who controls the AI platforms, and to what end?
8. In Defense of Human Thought and Consciousness
AI can calculate probability. It cannot perceive meaning.
Human consciousness was not designed to be replaced by machinery. It was designed to be aligned with a higher moral order. Discernment — the ability to distinguish truth from illusion — is not a program. It is a spiritual faculty.
AI cannot touch the soul. But it can distract it, imitate it, and drown out its voice. The real danger is artificial humanity. I explore this subject in the book Staying Human in the Age of AI.
9. Choose Your Source of Instruction
AI operates in the realm of function and calculation, not in the realm of the soul.
For purpose, meaning, conscience, and ultimate direction, humanity has always turned not to machines, but to the original sources of wisdom. The danger is also that even these sources have been filtered, altered, and institutionalized for control.
The original teachings of Jesus were not the bureaucratic religion of empire. They were a direct call to inner awakening — what He described in early Christian tradition as the “Kingdom within”; a theme that also runs through the older Vedic understanding of truth as an inward process connected to the divine, rather than institutional dogma.
That inner authority is precisely what technocratic systems seek to replace. Truth is known inwardly before it is manipulated outwardly.
The machine matrix of algorithmic instruction —
or the God matrix of inner wisdom.
What we submit to as truth, we slowly become. If we accept corrupted knowledge, we inherit corruption; if we align with higher truth and act upon it, we are transformed by it.
Conclusion: The AI Illusion
Artificial intelligence is increasingly positioned not as a tool, but as a governing authority over knowledge, economy, and judgment. The illusion is that it knows; the danger is that humanity begins to confuse calculation with wisdom.
A key question is will humanity remain oriented toward truth and God — or be administered by machines and those who control them?
Technology alone cannot resist technocracy. Without truth, it only perfects systems of control. A civilization without God does not become enlightened — it becomes efficiently managed. The AI illusion will not end through better code, but through clearer sight.
Editor’s note: I disagree with the climate example the author uses, and I don’t think you need to talk about god and soul to make his point. But he does so in a radical and moving way. As a professional computer programmer I do not think that it makes sense to anthropomorphize AI/artificial intelligence. I have seen what the underpinnings of this phenomena are. It is a great tool, but only a tool. No computer is smarter than or as creative as humans. Don’t forget this when you hear the tales of glory.
Recently AI videos of well known analysts expressing thoughts that are not their own are showing up on the internet. The technology is still a little rough so you can often pick them out, but that will soon be fixed. And then what? These videos are posted by someone who wants you to think that your expert is promoting their ideas. Since you have to have an account to post to youtube, I don’t know why these fakes are not removed. Why can’t the source information be shared with the person being faked so they can sue them? This is a corporate decision, not an accident and not a weakness in the system. Complain!!!!
We live in a world where AI is being promoted as all knowing when it’s just a tool that can be abused by the rich and powerful to confuse you. The gatekeepers have a lot of information on anyone who uses these tools. Demand that they be removed. There is a limit to technology and it is my experience that those who aren’t experts in the field believe it can do a lot more than it can. Stand up. Fight back!!
Mark Keenan is a former United Nations technical expert who writes on the intersection of science, finance, and public policy. He is the author of Demonic Economics, The Debt Machine, Climate CO₂ Hoax, and Staying Human in the Age of AI. He publishes at markgerardkeenan.substack.com, shares his work at www.realitybooks.co.uk, and comments on X at @TheMarkGerard.
He is a regular contributor to Global Research.