Bryan Daniels

How AI and surveillance capitalism are undermining democracy The only way data and AI can be used for good is with restrictive controls to prevent damage to democracy.

My new piece in the @thebulletin.org is out. To my surprise, I ended up in a more pessimistic place than I thought I would, about the threats to democracy.

thebulletin.org/2025/08/how-...

I agree! If we assume that the first step is to find the "true" interactions in large living networks, we get stuck before we get started.