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.
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.…