CJL director Courtney Radsch argues that today’s AI systems—shaped by market concentration, surveillance-based business models, and weak regulation—are evolving into an infrastructure of cognitive control that threatens freedom of thought, human agency, and democracy unless firm legal, structural, and human-rights–based constraints are imposed.
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Policy director Phil Longman warns that unchecked Big Tech and AI monopolies are rapidly undermining the economic foundations of a free press and urges urgent public support for policy-focused journalism, like the Washington Monthly, as essential to preserving democracy and meaningful freedom of speech.
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