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They’ll Use AI to Target Dissent. We Must Use It to Protect Expression.

Authoritarians no longer need to monitor everyone. They just need everyone to believe they’re being monitored.

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Aug 20, 2025
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The “No Kings” protest at the Michigan Capitol in Lansing, June 14, 2025 | Susan J. Demas

By Trygve Olson

This is the second part of the series, AI vs. Autocracy: Seven Lessons in the New Battle for Democracy.

In every authoritarian system I’ve worked in — from Belarus to Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe — opposition voices weren’t just suppressed.

They were tracked.…

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