To refocus on the relationship between intelligence and control, is to do away somewhat with the concept of a moral intelligence.
If control becomes the mode of operation within a context of levels of societal intelligence, then the quantification of that intelligence transposes to qualify the context within which it operates, resulting in a particularization of numerical advantage.
It may be, that the absolute requirement for using a program becomes restricted only to a few or even a sole analyst, by virtue of the fact that only a few number can qualify.
There is no right or wrong to this scheme, it is the ordinary pyramid, in its most extreme form. Access to intelligence depends on levels of across, eligibility conditional to experience and education, and other variables. Most of the untended automatism replacing such scheme, is recoverable only in modes of more and more general senses, and the non recoverable ones need specific use analysis based on newer and modified scheme.
Such propositions, as ‘should the fewer be sacrificed for the betterment of the many’ , may show the underlying immorality of trying to decipher, because, common sense predicates the reverse, that it is the many who usually get sacrificed for the fewer.
Political morality, is usually deceptive, and usually signals a point of differentiation. Beyond the difference, there, so called reactive, common sense beliefs kick in, where the differences are totally cut off. At these points certain variables disappear, and reasoning switches gear to a lower register.
To fill in the procured void, propaganda sets in by applications of clever oratory, and no one will be wiser then those who are doing the manipulation.
This I’d the potential threat: That in the event of a loss appearently or real control, fueled by a propaganda machine, that machine is seen as failing.
The alternative and final arbiter takes over, by severing more and more memory, whereby setting into place morphed and more control mechanisms. If there is no fail safe mechanism put into the system , or it is , but malfunctions, the effective mechanism itself has to take over: Big Brother, by Whatever IT Takes. The appearent intention or Benefit at that
point cannot be explained in terms other then paradoxical.
This is how power comes innocuously and innocently, unattended to, at first, into life, only to manifest a destiny uncalled or unreversuble later on.