The Dictator's Playbook stays the same throughout history.

It's the technology that changes.

That is what we are examining in this special Gaslit Nation summer series,

The Future of Dictatorship, featuring leading voices on the front lines of understanding

AI, corporate surveillance, Silicon Valley greed, and more.

You'll hear from science fiction

writer and journalist Corey Doctoro. By focusing our attention on these hypothetical harms that are

very far in the future, they take away our attention from the immediate harms that actually matter.

And they co-opt the language of AI safety, right, which is really about making people

safe today from the harms enacted by automated decision-making classification. And they make

us instead think about like whether or not we're all going to be stuck in the matrix, which

is an allegory, not a thing. Lisa Lin and Josh Chin, authors of surveillance state,

Inside China's Quest to launch a new era of social control.

Make it known that you're monitoring them.

If you see surveillance cameras coming up and there's no explanation,

ask, why are they there?

Why are they being installed? How long is the

data being kept? What is it being used for? What are your rights? Author and documentarian

Douglas Rushkoff. What if everybody is included in making it through the apocalypse?

Then maybe you don't need an apocalypse at all. And they're just like so the idea of kind of communitarianism or mutual aid or that we mitigate

the impact of our assault on the planet and each other by creating a more social reality

to find more by mutual aid than competition is just so

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