They’ll Use AI to Engineer Division. We Must Use It to Strengthen Solidarity.

Authoritarians will use AI to simulate solidarity — and sabotage it.

By Trygve Olson

This is the third in a seven-part series: AI vs. Autocracy: Seven Lessons in the New Battle for Democracy.

In fear-based systems, division is the fuel.

Autocrats don’t need to be loved.
They need people to distrust each other enough to give up on cooperation.

Now, with AI — especially large language models (LLMs) trained to mimic human tone, …