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You need to target some specific location in the brain for that, if that is even possible in humans.

Ultrasound is not very conductive by air [1]. The frequency used in the research process is 3.2MHz, and we can safely conclude it will be absorbed much (looks like thousands times) faster than sound in human voice range.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Attenuation-of-sound-in-...

The power needed to control the crowd with this technique will be prohibitively big. You can just use boat sirens with 1/100 of the power and get same crowd-dissipation results.




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