From John Unsworth, just-retired dean of libraries at U of Virginia:
https://www.arl.org/blog/john-unsworth-on-libraries-higher-education-and-anti-facism/

"21st-century fascism is not just about governing through force. It’s also about surveillance. It’s about AI in the service of fascism, as a tool of surveillance. It’s about dismembering the public sector…It’s about systematically erasing history, including data and primary source materials. This is foundational, for fascism —to distort the record or obscure it or simply deprive people of public data so that there is no independent source of fact. We’re seeing that right now. We’re also going to see more intimidation of individuals, more anti-union work, more anti-intellectualism, more loyalty tests."

#AI #Fascism #Trump #USPol #USPolitics #Surveillance #USPol #USPolitics