DARPA's New 'MAGICS' Program Seeks AI to 'Predict' and 'Forecast Human Behavior'

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched a disturbing new research program called MAGICS (Methodological Advancements for Generalizable Insights into Complex Systems), which openly seeks to develop artificial intelligence tools to predict and forecast human behavior on a large scale.

This comes just weeks after the House passed the sweeping "One Big Beautiful Bill ", which strips all 50 states of their right to regulate AI for the next decade, while the FDA simultaneously approved rules allowing researchers to access Americans’ blood, DNA, and medical data without consent.