Authoritarian Surveillance, Censorship, and Use (General)

"While new technologies like advanced AI assistants can aid in the production and dissemination of decision-guiding information, they can also enable and exacerbate threats to production and dissemination of reliable information and, without the proper mitigations, can be powerful targeting tools for oppression and control. Increasingly capable general-purpose AI assistants combined with our digital dependence in all walks of life increase the risk of authoritarian surveillance and censorship. In parallel, new sensors have flooded the modern world. The internet of things, phones, cars, homes, and social media platforms collect troves of data, which can then be integrated by advanced AI assistants with external tool-use and multimodal capabilities to assist malicious actors in identifying, targeting, manipulating, or coercing citizens."