Medium: "We happily entered the AI dictatorship" (notice: article blocked by paywall)

🕒 Published on Zendoric: September 17, 2026 · 08:28
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Notice to the reader: the content downloaded from this link is only the portion visible before Medium's paywall ("member-only story"). The text cuts off practically as soon as it begins, so what follows is a very brief summary limited to what we could actually read, without filling in assumptions about how the…
A note for the reader: the content downloaded from this link is only the portion visible before Medium's paywall ("member-only story"). The text cuts off practically at the start, so what follows is a very brief summary limited to what we were actually able to read, without filling in assumptions about how the author later connects her argument to artificial intelligence specifically.
The piece, signed by Roxana Ologeanu-Taddei in the publication "Policy Panorama", starts from a rhetorical question: how do you recognize a dictator? Her answer, according to the available excerpt, is that a dictator does not announce that he wants power, but rather presents every restriction as an act of care toward the citizen —the "wolf in sheep's clothing". The author lists several generic examples of this rhetorical mechanism: banning books or information "for the good of the people", barring newspapers or websites "to protect people from disinformation", censoring history books "to avoid misunderstandings about the past", restricting foreign film or music "to preserve moral values", silencing the opposition "to maintain social stability" and monitoring private conversations "to protect people from dangerous ideas".
The downloaded text ends right there, at the subheading "Controlling what you read and see", without going on to develop the explicit link to AI announced in the title, or the central body of the argument about the "AI utopia" and the "forced adoption of AI" that, according to the article itself, would be shaping a new form of dictatorship. We have no further content to know which concrete examples of companies, governments, AI products or policies the author cites to support that thesis, so it is not possible to offer a well-founded analysis of her full argument without access to the rest of the text (about a 5-minute read according to the page itself, of which we only have the opening).
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