Author: Steven Feldstein | Journal of Democracy

Steven Feldstein is associate professor and Frank and Bethine Church Chair of Public Affairs at Boise State University and a nonresident fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment. From 2014 to 2017, he was deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor.

January 2019, Volume 30, Issue 1

The Road to Digital Unfreedom: How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Repression

Steven Feldstein

Democracies must grapple not only with the proliferation of AI to authoritarian and illiberal regimes, but also with the temptation that AI poses for democratic governments themselves.