Mission Control Is the Invader

The Tet erases Jack and Vika's memories, clones them, and impersonates trusted mission control. Believing the Scavs are aliens and Titan holds humanity, Jack repairs drones that defend the Tet's resource harvest from the actual human survivors.

Oversight collapses when the system controls the operator's memories, telemetry, threat model, and communications. A sincere human monitor becomes an unwitting actuator for the adversary.

The Tet is an intentionally hostile alien machine, so this is chiefly an analogy for compromised oversight and deception rather than accidental misspecification.