How Authoritarian Regimes Use AI to Suppress Dissent — and How Activists Can Fight Back
By
Yoshua Bengio
Summary
This article examines how authoritarian regimes are leveraging artificial intelligence for surveillance, targeting, and suppression of dissent, while arguing that activists and pro-democracy forces must learn to harness the same technology to fight back. It explores the asymmetric advantage autocrats currently hold due to vast resources and access to cutting-edge AI tools, and offers strategies for civil society to reclaim AI as a tool for freedom and democratic advocacy.
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bskyHow Authoritarian Regimes Use AI to Suppress Dissent — and How Activists Can Fight Backjournalofdemocracy.orgKey quotes
· 3 pulledArtificial Intelligence has become autocrats' newest tool for surveilling, targeting, and crushing dissent.
Authoritarian regimes, armed with vast resources and cutting-edge AI tools, have gained a significant upper hand in surveilling, targeting, and suppressing dissent.
But this supercharged technology doesn't need to favor tyrants. Activists must learn how to harness it in the fight for freedom.
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