Technology and Democracy

The autocratic adolescent never grows up

How powerful AI could make authoritarianism permanent

Jan 29 • Ian Bassin and Nicole Schneidman

Election deniers want your data

Their plans to use your voter information to subvert elections

Jan 23 • Izzy Gray and Sara Chimene-Weiss

AI is coming for the 2026 election

Predicting the impacts, both positive and negative

Dec 18, 2025 • Ben Gips, Edison Forman, Bill Gates, and TJ Pyche

ICE is monitoring all Americans’ air travel

Hope you wanted warrantless surveillance in your stocking

Dec 13, 2025 • Nicole Schneidman and Scott Shuchart

Democracy in the time of artificial intelligence

Announcing the AI for Democracy Action Lab

Oct 3, 2025 • 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”

May 20, 2025 • 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

May 12, 2025 • Nicole Schneidman

DOGE is illegally accessing millions of Americans’ sensitive data

Why we’re suing to enforce the Privacy Act of 1974

Feb 10, 2025 • Aaron Baird

How Musk and Trump could build a techno-autocracy

Tech tools could make Trumpism very difficult to dislodge

Feb 8, 2025 • Nicole Schneidman and Dean Jackson

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