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Enter #AI: back in 2018, #YuvalHarari proposed that AI would supercharge dictatorships by mining and summarizing the public mood - as captured on social media - allowing dictators to tack into serious discontent and diffuse it before it erupted into unequenchable wildfire:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/Harari wrote that "the desire to concentrate all information and power in one place may become [dictators] decisive advantage in the 21st century."
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