Seriously man? Do you think you might be being just a little bit hyperbolic there? I mean, it's pretty darn clear that Deep Learning isn't "created ... for the sole purpose of furthering ... surveillance and user manipulation capabilities" when almost all of the papers on the topic are freely available on arXiv, and source code for nearly every important implementation is available as Open Source, usually in multiple languages, using multiple different frameworks (which are almost all Open Source as well). I mean, sure, Google use Deep Learning to display ads... great. But you, or me, or anybody else, can also use the same techniques for our own (presumably more noble) ends.

Do you hold the same opinion of the people at Bell labs who got Turing or Nobel awards?