Republicans involved in the effort said they plan for it to be used by White House officials, lawmakers and staff to determine who can meet with party leaders in discussions of policy matters. The idea is to alert GOP officials and staff members to Republicans who "deserve" such access and to Democrats who don't, said one lobbyist involved. It will also give busy lawmakers and officials an idea of whom they are dealing with, even if they don't choose to keep Democratic lobbyists out of their office.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/10/31/election.tech.idg/index.html
Candidates use databases, mapping technology to target voters October 31, 2000
(IDG) -- The PC-based GeoVoter system in Darryl Howard's office is getting a workout before next week's elections. As executive director of the Oregon Republican Party in Salem, Howard is a leading-edge user of database and mapping technology that helps candidates deliver personalized campaign messages to individual voters.
"I'll give you an example," he said. "A Democratic candidate yesterday said he'd like to tax SUV owners. Our [Republican] candidate will drop a mail piece in the next few days based on the fact that I can tell you everybody who owns an SUV who's a registered voter in that district."
In other words, the mailings will go only to those 3,600 sport-utility vehicle owners, so there's no wastage. "All politics is not local. All politics is personal," Howard said.
Political campaigns have mined voter-registration and census data for decades, but now they're adding demographic data about things such as income, charitable donations, vehicle ownership and magazine subscriptions to create profiles of individual voters. When plotted on a geographic information system, the data gives campaigns a powerful tool for politicking at the household level.
Interested in the future of you and your family? Well, here is the future in connection with the so-called internet. Its a brave new world.
http://www.hermes-press.com/program1.htm
These profiling or personallity simulation systems:
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capture a person's mental components: actions, beliefs, ideas, attitudes, purchasing patterns, habits, etc.
translate these into a computer system: a program which prioritizes and relates the various elements to an overall purpose
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example 1: a consumer profile which gives a certain weight to specific kinds of purchases the person makes and predicts what products they would buy in the future
example 2: a criminal behavior profile based on prior indictments or convictions used to predict future criminal activity
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use the system to influence and control that person's ideas and behavior
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example 1: TV ads based on the profile developed from the consumer's purchasing patterns
example 2: military counterintelligence activities based on a profile of the enemy's leadership
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This may sound like science fiction or Frankenstein's laboratory, but it is the actual state of the technology in personality simulation and control.
Personality simulation falls within the domain of artificial intelligence. From its inception, artificial intelligence (AI) has been primarily concerned with developing systems which simulate human behavior for the purpose of controlling such behavior.
In 1950, a British computer scientist, Alan Turing, devised a test to prove whether or not a computer system displayed intelligence. It is now called the Turing Indistinguishability Test:
Place a computerized personality simulation system in one room and Person A in another
If Person B communicates with each room and the input and output from each room is indistinguishable as being from a computer system or a real person, then the computer system is intelligent.
Unfortunately, such theorizing in artificial intelligence has misled some people to conjecture that a computer system could be developed which actually carried out the human function of thinking. If you examine the definitions of "
think, <javascript:makeTour()>" it's clear that only a human with a mind (more than a physical brain) can think.
One of the AI researchers the U.S. Department of Defense funded over many years was a Freudian psychiatrist at Stanford University, Kenneth J. Colby. He developed computer systems to simulate the mind for the express purpose of influencing and controlling the behavior of his psychiatric patients.
Colby developed three models of the human personality over many years of research:
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Model of a neurotic woman suffering from anxiety in relation to men
Artificial belief system - a "child brain"
Model of paranoid processes - which later was nicknamed Parry
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Colby's models of the human mind were based on these principles:
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The credibility of a belief is based on the credibility of its source
Human personalities are based on belief systems concerning significant persons, including the self
Every psychological concept has specific significance to the person: e.g. father, love
Input from others is evaluated and "colored" by mental patterns such as fear or anger
A human's mind changes with inner conflict, transforming beliefs to fit into an overall pattern
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These are a few of the startling implications of Colby's models:
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By capturing a person's belief structures we can control him or her
Unenlightened human minds are combinations of infantile beliefs and emotional patterns
Unenlightened human minds can be simulated by a computerized system
Through such systems, unenlightened people can be programmed and controlled
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It's necessary for us to realize that the components of most personalities can be captured and developed into a complete simulation of our thinking and feeling processes. That simulation can then be used to manipulate us in any way the artificial intelligence technician, political operative, or communicator chooses. Not only is this possible, but it's already taking place, as we'll see below.
When people first encounter this idea of mind control through computer simulation, they usually try to dodge the issue with an unthinking denial. They protest:
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Don't humans change too much to be controllable?
Answer: A sophisticated computerized personality simulation system would include modifications in its profile of the person relative to the ways the individual changes.
How could someone control my behavior when I don't even know what my beliefs are myself?
Answer: An AI knowledge engineer can capture the major elements of your personality, including the fact that you may not know what you believe.
Isn't this a bit too much in the science-fiction realm?
Answer: In 1971 an AI system developed by Kenneth Colby passed the Turing Test. Members of the American Psychiatric Association could not distinguish between dialogue with actual mildly paranoid patients and dialogue with Colby's system.
Few people today, including AI researchers, realize that Colby's system passed the Turing Indistinguishibiligy Test, proving that his system contained demonstrable intelligence. And even more significant, few today realize that Colby's system - and current systems based on the same principles - are predicting and CONTROLLING human behavior.
But that was in the past. Surely this kind of thing is not going on now is it?
Answer: It's going on all the time and growing in power. Personality simulation systems are being used to create political campaigns which apply voter profiles to control their voting behavior. TV commercials and programs use personality simulation to profile viewers to control their purchasing and viewing behaviors.
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Are there recent studies of this mind-control technology?
Answer: Yes.
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Roland Perry's 1984 book,
The Programming of the President < sps3.htm>: the Hidden Power of the Computer in World Politics Today, reveals how all the recent presidential election campaigns have used this technology to control voter behavior. Strategic Personality Simulation: A New Strategic Concept <sps2.htm>
the author's book which was published by the U.S. Army War College A Strategic Personality Simulation Illustration: Richard Nixon <Spssml.exe>
A Strategic Personality Simulation Illustration: Realpolitik <Realpol1.exe>
I suspected that the politicians are very much interested in this and not just the corps.
I know you all are shocked. This must be science fiction, which it is.
Isn't this a bit too much in the science-fiction realm?
Answer: In 1971 an AI system developed by Kenneth Colby passed the Turing Test. Members of the American Psychiatric Association could not distinguish between dialogue with actual mildly paranoid patients and dialogue with Colby's system.
For those who did not understand the implication here, a person on the internet can not tell if they are talking to a so-called "real" person or ..... <dramatic pause> an artifical intellience program!
Obviously, this is a reality today about the internet. What is "real" and what is not "real"? The above idea is only a very primitive take on the movie called "Matrix". The difference: politicians using machines + programs to control human behavior. Have a happy day.
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