How to Confront the Threat of AI Dictatorship
Is the future something to be calculated and controlled, or something we shape together through democratic struggle? How should we read the convergence of Silicon Valley’s “Dark Enlightenment” thinkers with a resurgent authoritarian right, and is Europe truly reckoning with what has shifted in the United States? What is driving the continent’s anti-regulatory mood? What counts as “evidence” sufficient to legislate a fast-moving technology, and at what point does the demand for proof become a license for the catastrophe to arrive first?
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