In this eye-opening episode of America Hijacked from Man In America, host Seth Holehouse reveals the hidden military origins of artificial intelligence, starting with the 1956 Dartmouth Conference funded partly by the Office of Naval Research and the massive Pentagon investments that followed. He connects the dots from early projects like SAGE—the real-time radar defense network that became the prototype for modern data centers and networked systems—to psychologist J.C.R. Licklider’s $9 million vision that shaped the internet’s architecture, all the way to today’s Stargate Project and the US-China AI arms race. The video argues that AI wasn’t born in Silicon Valley garages but in Cold War defense labs, following a repeatable pattern: government identifies a threat, funds the tech in secret, then hands it to the private sector with a friendly rebrand—leaving the public unaware of its surveillance-ready foundations. It’s presented as both a history lesson and a warning about the power structures still steering modern technology.
