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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-10T13:15:00.000Z",
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    "The Open Future and its Enemies: How We Can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship"
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  "textContent": "Is the future something to be calculated and controlled, or something we shape together through democratic struggle? How should we read the convergence of Silicon Valley's \"Dark Enlightenment\" thinkers with a resurgent authoritarian right, and is Europe truly reckoning with what has shifted in the United States? What is driving the continent's anti-regulatory mood? What counts as \"evidence\" sufficient to legislate a fast-moving technology, and at what point does the demand for proof become a license for the catastrophe to arrive first?\n\n**Justin Hendrix** addressed these questions and more with scholar and former European Commission official **Paul Nemitz** , who is one of the authors of a new book titled _The Open Future and its Enemies: How We Can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship._ The book argues that three decades of under-regulation have produced the concentrations of wealth and power we now confront, and that the survival of democracy in the digital age will depend on citizens, civil society, and a new generation willing to treat their work as carrying responsibility not just for safety, but for fundamental rights and self-government.",
  "title": "How to Confront the Threat of AI Dictatorship"
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