A sweeping warning that governments and tech firms are turning AI into tools for surveillance, war, and control — framed as bad news for ordinary people's privacy and freedom.

• The World Health Organization runs an AI system that scans social media and news to flag "misinformation" — meaning it can spot true information officials don't like and help tamp it down.
• The US is paying Palantir for an AI "kill chain" in Gaza that pulls together phone taps, drones, and social media to pick targets, and can flag people just for having relatives tied to Hamas.
• Similar AI targeting tools (Lavender, Where's Daddy) reportedly track fighters and strike them when they are home with their families, raising fears the same tech gets pointed at Americans labeled "domestic terrorists."
• New research says AI will wipe out office jobs held mostly by women in rural areas, pushing more people onto an expanding, taxpayer-funded welfare state.
• A Utah pilot lets AI chatbots refill psychiatric drugs like antidepressants with no doctor, and power companies are using eminent domain to seize homes for giant, noisy AI data centers.

Outlook: Expect more government and corporate use of AI for surveillance, targeting, and land grabs, with little legal pushback in the near term.