Stanley Kubrick and the AI Demiurge

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Stanley Kubrick was up to something. But neither his fiercest admirers nor his harshest critics ever suspected what it was. His movies were the means, but what was the end?

The Kubrickon maps an unholy merger of computer and behavioral sciences that has shaped not just politics but all of modern society over the past decade (e.g. Cambridge Analytica), tracing it directly back to the 1960s and 1970s. It explores Stanley Kubrick’s intensive, secret, insider involvement in the building of an architecture of algorithm-directed technology that has steadily encroached into our inner realms, cementing a symbiotic relationship between human consciousness and technology, with culture (etymologically at the root of worship) as the binding medium of an attention economy. Via cybernetics, Simulmatics, DARPA (the proto-internet) and Kubrick’s post-Dr. Strangelove film oeuvre, this tech has harvested human awareness as a means to generate and apply Artificial Intelligence as a working tool for memetic social engineering and the co-opting of the human soul.

Start at 16 minutes in to skip the intro...it is a fresh take on Kubrick and his unique role in harvesting human consciousness.