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The main dangers of authoritarian technocracy are not at this point political, at least not in the traditional sense. Still, a select few already have authoritarian control, more or less, to establish the digital world’s rules and cultural norms, which can be as potent as political power.
Gift Article: The Rise of Techno-Authoritarianism
Adrienne LaFrance
We’re cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling. And what Douglas Pavlicek wants to know is why this is so easy to see when you’re by yourself in a cabin on a hillside, and almost impossible to believe once you step out of the house and join several billion folks doubling down on the status quo.
The Overstory
Richard Powers
And, in the second case, that by interacting with chatty generative AI models, [10](https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/357829899/#page-9-0) people's own delusions beliefs and ideas can not only be affirmed by AI but can more substantially take root and grow through human-AI co-construction.
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