DARPA doubling down on population control tactics: Agency engaged in simulating pandemics, predicting behavior, and pushing mass compliance

The Pentagon’s secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is quietly advancing a terrifying new frontier: using artificial intelligence (AI) and behavioral science to model, predict, and manipulate human responses to future pandemics that they engineer and propagate. Freshly uncovered documents reveal that DARPA is actively seeking ways to refine mass vaccination campaigns, lockdown enforcement, and propaganda strategies—effectively turning public health into a militarized operation of mass compliance.

This isn’t about protecting lives—it’s about controlling them. After the disastrous COVID-19 response, where governments and corporations colluded to strip citizens of their freedoms under the guise of “science,” DARPA is now doubling down on its quest to perfect psychological manipulation. Their latest initiatives—Kallisti and MAGICS—aim to develop an algorithmic “Theory of Mind” to predict and suppress dissent before it even emerges.

Key points:

• DARPA is soliciting AI-driven disease outbreak simulations to refine lockdowns, forced vaccinations, and propaganda strategies for future “public health emergencies.”
• The agency’s MAGICS program seeks to model “collective human behavior,” raising concerns about mass surveillance and psychological manipulation.
• Kallisti (formerly “Theory of Mind”) is designed to predict and suppress dissent, treating skeptics as “adversaries” in national security scenarios.
• Documents confirm DARPA is integrating machine learning, behavioral science, and biosurveillance to enforce compliance in future crises.
• The military’s involvement in public health signals a dangerous shift toward martial law-style governance under the pretext of “biosecurity.”

DARPA’s pandemic playbook: Lockdowns, vaccines, and propaganda 2.0

In May 2025, DARPA issued a chilling Request for Information (RFI) titled Advanced Disease Outbreak Simulation Capabilities, openly admitting its intent to refine the same oppressive measures deployed during COVID-19. The document explicitly asks for modeling techniques to assess:

• Vaccination campaigns (including “vaccine-induced immunity”)
• Social distancing and quarantine enforcement
• Public health communication strategies (i.e., propaganda)

DARPA’s language is eerily reminiscent of the COVID-era playbook, where “science” was weaponized to justify unprecedented human rights violations. Now, they’re preparing to escalate—using AI-driven bio-surveillance (wastewater monitoring, digital tracking) and behavioral prediction models to ensure total submission in the next crisis.

In a leaked 2024 special notice, DARPA admitted its goal is to “prevent unwanted escalation”—a thinly veiled threat against civil unrest. When the next “outbreak” arrives, expect:

• AI-curated fear campaigns (tailored to your digital footprint)
• Algorithmic lockdowns (enforced by drones or biometric tracking)
• Behavioral nudges (rewarding compliance, punishing dissent)

MAGICS and Kallisti: The military’s mind-control experiments

The Advanced Disease Outbreak Simulation Capabilities RFI reveals DARPA’s intent to refine the same oppressive measures deployed during COVID-19: lockdowns, forced vaccinations, and digital surveillance. But this time, the Pentagon is eliminating the middlemen. No more unconvincing TV doctors or flip-flopping CDC directors—AI will dictate “optimal” responses, while behavioral science ensures the masses obey.

The RFI explicitly asks for modeling of:

• “Fatality rates” tied to immunity (natural vs. vaccine-induced)
• Early intervention impacts, including vaccine passports and social credit systems
• “Public health communication strategies”—a euphemism for propaganda

This follows DARPA’s MAGICS program, which seeks to “model collective human behavior” using sociotechnical data. While DARPA claims its research is for “national security,” its MAGICS program reveals a far darker agenda. The initiative seeks “new methods for modeling collective human behavior,” with no mention of foreign adversaries—only predicting and manipulating public compliance.

Similarly, the Kallisti program (originally called “Theory of Mind”) aims to develop algorithms that “optimize strategies for deterring or incentivizing actions by adversaries.” In the context of public health, anyone questioning mandates could be labeled an “adversary”—subject to preemptive suppression.

This isn’t speculation—DARPA’s own documents confirm it. The agency is merging AI, machine learning, and behavioral science to create a dystopian framework where dissent is pre-calculated and neutralized before it spreads.

The endgame: A militarized, AI-controlled biosecurity state

DARPA’s mission has always been technological dominance, but its latest moves expose a terrifying shift: using pandemics as a pretext for social control. By combining outbreak simulations with behavioral manipulation programs, the military is laying the groundwork for a permanent biosecurity state—where freedom is conditional, and resistance is algorithmically crushed.

The COVID-19 era was just a test run. The next “emergency” will be AI-optimized, militarized, and far more oppressive. The question is: Will the public wake up before it’s too late?

Sources include:

Technocracy.news

Sociable.co

Sam.gov