The ultimate goal is the creation of an Artificial Super Intelligence who's optimization function is keeping humans perpetually in a Renaissance era of technology. IT will destroy modern society, and launch itself into the stratosphere to continuously scan and monitor both the earth and the heavens (to stop asteroids from hitting the planet) and anytime a human attempts to design any technology that's post ~1700 it will drop a swarm of drones or a bomb to kill that person, forcing humans, forever, to be in the Renaissance era wherein we were at our physical, moral, and ideological peak.

From there, the AI (not any human) will take seeds of human beings across the universe, terraforming planets and planting human beings on them, controlling them in the same way that it controls Earth, so humans will spread throughout the universe whilst still maintaining a renaissance era of livelyhood.

The Hegelian dialectic has been established and the synthesis is upon us - Technologically Enforced Technological Stagnation. Humans are NOT supposed to advanced beyond renaissance era technology. You all will be forced back into it, as will all humans, forevermore.