What happens when one of the strangest chapters in the history of intelligence research collides with artificial intelligence?
In Episode 35 of Conspiracy Dad, we dive into the bizarre history of remote viewing: the alleged ability to perceive information about distant or unseen targets without using the ordinary senses.
Yes, the U.S. government actually investigated it. But that’s only where this conversation begins.
We explore the decades of research surrounding remote viewing, the controversial experiments associated with programs such as STARGATE and GRILL FLAME, and the larger questions these experiments raise about consciousness, information, intuition, and the limits of human perception.
Then things get considerably weirder.
We discuss physicist and consciousness researcher Thomas Campbell, whose My Big TOE model proposes that consciousness may be more fundamental than the physical reality we experience. Campbell has also publicly discussed experiments involving AI and remote viewing.
Which led Dante to ask a fairly ridiculous question: Could an AI remote view?
So he tried it. Over a series of blind experiments, ChatGPT was given randomly assigned target numbers with no description of the corresponding images. Sometimes the results were complete misses. But a few of them were strange enough that we’re still trying to figure out what happened.
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING CIA FOIA: Remote Viewing / GRILL FLAME session documents The CIA Reading Room contains declassified records from the U.S. government's remote-viewing research, including actual session reports and drawings.
CIA Remote Viewing Session LIII
CIA Remote Viewing Session XCI
1995 Evaluation of the Remote Viewing Program The American Institutes for Research was commissioned to evaluate the government's remote-viewing research and its usefulness for intelligence operations. The resulting debate between statistician Jessica Utts and psychologist Ray Hyman remains an important part of the story.
1995 AIR Remote Viewing Evaluation
Thomas Campbell / My Big TOE
Campbell's larger theory proposes a consciousness-first model of reality and explores phenomena including remote viewing within that framework.
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