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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: The Machines Are Learning — and They’re Learning to Be Fascists

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

AI is not just another tech revolution. It’s the perfect storm of surveillance, manipulation, and digital obedience — and the far right already has a head start…

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The machines are learning, and they're learning to be fascists. Pope Leo the 14th just

1:08.1

labeled AI, one of the main threats facing humanity, saying it poses

1:11.9

challenges to, quote, human dignity, justice, and labor, end quote.

1:16.7

He's right, but it's even worse than that.

1:19.3

It represents, unless it's rigorously regulated, a threat to democracy itself.

1:24.9

In every generation, the enemies of democracy change costumes, but their

1:29.3

playbook remains eerily familiar. They lie, divide, intimidate, and exploit every available tool

1:35.1

to consolidate power. In the 1930s, it was radio, and in the 2010s it was social media.

1:41.2

Now, in 2025, the newest and most dangerous weapon in the authoritarian arsenal

1:46.0

is artificial intelligence. Make no mistake, AI is not just another technology. It is power, scaled.

1:54.2

And in the hands of the far right, it becomes the most effective tool for dismantling democracy ever invented.

2:00.7

Authoritarians, whether MAGA aligned in the United States,

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