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AI and the Rise of Techno-Fascism in the United States

Will powerful new tools be used to promote democracy or undermine it?

Large language models like ChatGPT can perform complex tasks in areas as diverse as law, art, and, of course, helping our kids cheat on their homework. So even though it has enough training data that can actually repeat what the rules are, it can’t use those in the service of the game—because it doesn’t have the right abstract representation of what happens dynamically over time in the game. Because some people even say that it may lead us to something called techno-fascism, where, while preserving all the elements of representative democracy, we will end up in some kind of dystopian society where the few in charge of massive data will make election results predictable and bend them to their favor.

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