They'll Use AI to Target Dissent. We Must Use It to Protect Expression.

By Trygve Olson

In every authoritarian system I’ve worked in — from Belarus to Azerbaijan to Zimbabwe — opposition voices weren’t just suppressed.

They were tracked. Profiled. Punished.

And now, with large language models (LLMs) and machine learning tools becoming more powerful by the day, that process is going from manual to automatic — and from subtle to systemic.

This isn’t a future threat.
It’s happening now.

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