There are a lot of scary implications in this sort of AI social modeling, the least of which is how to stop the...

There are a lot of scary implications in this sort of AI social modeling, the least of which is how to stop the spread of atheism (the USA is well on it's way) and how to destroy an ethno-religious group that you disagree with. And what's worse, it's available to you, me, cult leaders and foreign state psy-ops teams. You know, like Russia, who might be following it's playbook in how to upset America's democracy.

Conspiracy theorists might have been mumbling about lizard people and the so-called "Illuminati" for decades, but the advancement in social engineering will be from artificial intelligence. You know, what Google, Amazon, Microsoft and every other tech company uses every single day to make sure you see the emails they deem important; the search results they think you want to see; and the friend suggestions they think you might like. AI is taking thought, analysis and critical thinking away from us leaving only drones who follow the bouncing ball.

When you build a model, you can accidentally produce recommendations that you weren’t intending. Years ago, Wildman built a model to figure out what makes some extremist groups survive and thrive while others disintegrate. It turned out one of the most important factors is a highly charismatic leader who personally practices what he preaches. “This immediately implied an assassination criterion,” he said. “It’s basically, leave the groups alone when the leaders are less consistent, [but] kill the leaders of groups that have those specific qualities. It was a shock to discover this dropping out of the model. I feel deeply uncomfortable that one of my models accidentally produced a criterion for killing religious leaders.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/07/artificial-intelligence-religion-atheism/565076/