Authoritarian governments don’t need superintelligent AI. They need AI that’s just good enough to monitor more people, automate more decisions, and scale censorship at a fraction of the cost. The real danger isn’t AI becoming all powerful: It’s making authoritarianism dramatically cheaper and more efficient.
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2026
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Hasn't basically the premise of all this been the standard knowledge at the time 1984 was written (which if I recall was like 1949), Only thing AI does is, lessens the people needed to do it.
Would love to be a paid researcher getting to state the obvious