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How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators

This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs . Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina…

  • AI can empower dictators by avoiding human costs of protests and control.
  • AI systems can be used to maintain autocratic control without human intermediaries.
  • China leads in AI development for autocratic control and oversight.

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