In my new essay in @jodemocracy.bsky.social, I look at why bureaucratic discretion matters for resistance to authoritarianism—and what may be lost as AI gives political leaders new ways to monitor bureaucrats’ decisions, communications, and behavior.
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Will AI Surveillance End Bureaucratic Autonomy? | Journal of Democracy
Bureaucrats who slow-walk, leak, and refuse to cooperate have long been democracy’s quiet sentinels. But autocrats armed with AI surveillance will root them out—unless democracies build new legal…
