Originally Posted by
Avilan the Grey
Small correction:
The institute wants to Stepford-wife everyone. What you gather from dialogue snippets in the Institute and what they are doing on the surface is actually to kill and replace every human in the Commonwealth with Android dopplegangers. If you listen to some of the people in the lab (close to the synth gorillas) they let it slip that they are months, if not weeks, from unleashing this plan on the Commonwealth.