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This may be the most important rule today. It’s a secret
Trump’s Kafkaesque artificial intelligence black box
 • Ben Raderstorf
Autocratic capture comes for AI
Investigating the ways Trump’s secret AI power grab could go wrong
 • Deana El-Mallawany and Justin Florence
“A nice little database” of “domestic terrorists”
ICE, the Anthropic case, and how to stop mass domestic surveillance
 • Ben Raderstorf
When ICE’s surveillance machine comes for Americans
What you can do to weaken ICE’s surveillance apparatus
 • Nicole Schneidman and Edison Forman
The autocratic adolescent never grows up
How powerful AI could make authoritarianism permanent
 • Ian Bassin and Nicole Schneidman
Election deniers want your data
Their plans to use your voter information to subvert elections
 • Izzy Gray and Sara Chimene-Weiss
AI is coming for the 2026 election
Predicting the impacts, both positive and negative
 • Ben Gips, Edison Forman, Bill Gates, and TJ Pyche
ICE is monitoring all Americans’ air travel
Hope you wanted warrantless surveillance in your stocking
 • Nicole Schneidman and Scott Shuchart
Democracy in the time of artificial intelligence
Announcing the AI for Democracy Action Lab
 • Ian Bassin and Nicole Schneidman
The DOGE debacle, part 1
A former USDS engineer on why government systems can’t be updated with a “full rewrite”
 • Christian Johnson
DOGE’s data “panopticon” pales compared to what’s next
If state governments surrender their datasets, there’s no telling how they could be abused
 • Nicole Schneidman
DOGE is illegally accessing millions of Americans’ sensitive data
Why we’re suing to enforce the Privacy Act of 1974
 • Aaron Baird
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