Katherine Rundell - who you should read on absolutely anything she writes about - is now writing about AI. "If you set out to design from scratch a tool to facilitate authoritarian rule, it would look exactly like AI."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/08/i-hate-what-ai-is-doing-to-the-minds-and-happiness-of-the-young-katherine-rundell-on-the-view-from-the-classroom
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