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The Final Despotism
When Technology Rewrites Human Freedom
Yuval Noah Harari, historian and author of Sapiens and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, has warned that artificial intelligence and biometric data systems threaten to undermine not just democratic governance but human autonomy itself. As democratic institutions are systematically weakened, as civil service protections are dismantled, as public trust in shared truth-seeking mechanisms collapses—the technical infrastructure for permanent control is being simultaneously constructed. When tech leaders talk about making government more "efficient" through AI, when they promise to optimize bureaucratic processes or improve service delivery, they're presenting the elimination of human judgment and democratic oversight as mere technical upgrades.
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