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Peter Jones's avatar

That's the trouble with Didn't Earn Its..... they have no idea.

Trump and Musk have never done the work...

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Nigel P. Daly's avatar

Thanks for the though-provoking piece.

Government by Grok echoes Harari's warning that AI-driven automation risks concentrating power in the hands of elites. This will obsviously enable unprecedented surveillance and control and in so doing undermine democratic institutions.

Musk’s drive for factory-like efficiency and automation as applied to governance means stripping bureaucracy down to its algorithmic core while consolidating authority under tech oligarchs. On the one hand, this move will sure create efficiency gains, cost savings, and in many public facing sectors, improved service (!), but the coin flips between techno-optimism and techno-fascism. What fuels Musk’s talent for automation also enables AI-powered political control. Here efficiency is an attractive mask hiding authoritarian rule.

Parallels to the CCP’s surveillance state are hard to ignore. Both the US's emerging regime and the CCP increasingly rely on AI to tighten control, suppress dissent, and optimize governance through mass data collection and predictive enforcement.

Keep up the insightful and pressing reporting and commentary!

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