Your really think they don't already control the populations? The tech has been there for the taking for decades. It only hit the news because someone made a lame language model, but made it not-half bad. I suspect the really good language models don't get talked about publicly and have been mostly used to transcribe all phone calls made for decade or two. I also suspect that machine learning and AI have taken the place of think tanks and have, like think tanks once did, been manipulating the public, only with excess of success, for a long time.