Beware the Metaverse: Dr. Rand Waltzman discusses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Internet

Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan

Dr. Steven Hassan

Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education

4.8 • 684 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Please join me in a profound but disturbingly honest conversation with one of the world’s true experts in Artificial Intelligence. The Information Professionals Association (IPA) co-founder, Dr. Rand Waltzman, has over 40 years of experience performing and managing research in AI applied to domains including social media and cognitive security in the information environment. His distinguished career includes being the former Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Senior Information Scientist at the Rand Corporation. His perspective is dire. He says that without dramatic intervention into data privacy and technology regulations worldwide, those with power will be able to conduct massive mind control at scale, as we see in current dictatorships. He agrees that the human mind is easily manipulated, provided a person doesn’t understand how social psychology principles and propaganda techniques are being used on them. There is no freedom without responsibility. Virtual Reality (VR) technology is able to obtain vast amounts of information about a user’s mind that can be used to manipulate and control them. Learn more about Steven Hassan and Freedom of Mind Resource Center. Visit freedomofmind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Dr. Stephen Hassan with another episode of the influence continuum.
0:10.1	I am very honored to have a distinguished guest for our episode today, Dr. Rand Walsman.
0:18.5	Dr. Walsman has over 40 years of experience performing and managing research in artificial
0:25.2	intelligence applied to domains including social media and cognitive security in the information
0:31.8	environment. He's formerly deputy chief technology officer and a senior information scientist at the
0:39.2	Rand Corporation in Santa Monica, California.
0:43.0	Prior to joining Rand, he was the acting chief technology officer of the Software Engineering
0:49.0	Institute in Washington, D.C. of Carnegie Mellon University.
0:53.8	And before that, you did a five-year tour as a
0:56.4	program manager in the Information Innovation Office of DARPA, Defense Advanced Research Projects
1:04.4	Agency, where you created and managed the social media and strategic communications program, and the anomaly detection at multiple scales
1:14.9	insider threat detection program. Wow. There's more. We'll add it to the blog, Dr. Walsman.
1:23.4	But first I want to just say, I've been following you on Twitter. You put up little cartoons and a little statement, and you're at CogSec, if I'm remembering,
1:35.7	cognitive security is your term.
1:40.1	You say, if you don't understand all these techniques, then you're at risk.
1:45.6	And then you explain a social psychology principle.
1:49.3	You give some examples of it.
1:52.1	And I just think everyone should be following you and learning from you because that's the
1:56.8	only way out of this hole that we seem to be in.
2:00.4	Because indeed, information has been weaponized.
2:04.4	So with that as the intro, I just think you have such an amazing body of insight into what's
2:12.7	been happening and this polarization effect that has been happening in a number of years.
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