{"podcast":{"title":"The Tech Policy Press Podcast","slug":"the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134","podcast_index_feed_id":1378134,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/techpolicypress/","website_url":"https://techpolicy.press","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/13a4e094-bfb8-4b58-b59d-02b8f292a6f2/BgtfDWriiMrD_96Bs7jeTwKM.png","author":"Tech Policy Press","episode_count":300,"summary":"Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. You can find us at https://techpolicy.press/, where you can join the newsletter.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134"},"episode":{"title":"How to Confront the Threat of AI Dictatorship","slug":"how-to-confront-the-threat-of-ai-dictatorship","published_at":"2026-05-10T13:15:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134/how-to-confront-the-threat-of-ai-dictatorship","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134","url":"https://techpolicy.press/how-to-confront-the-threat-of-ai-dictatorship","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2e767fae-cd4a-43c1-ab73-ceafa10eaf98.mp3","summary":"Is the future something to be calculated and controlled, or something we shape together through democratic struggle? How should we read the convergence of Silicon Valley's \"Dark Enlightenment\" thinkers with a resurgent authoritarian right, and is Europe truly reckoning with what has shifted in the United States? What is driving the continent's anti-regulatory mood? What counts as \"evidence\" sufficient to legislate a fast-moving technology, and at what point does the demand for proof become a license for the catastrophe to arrive first? Justin Hendrix addressed these questions and more with scholar and former European Commission official Paul Nemitz , who is one of the authors of a new book titled The Open Future and its Enemies: How We Can Protect Free Society from AI Dictatorship . The book argues that three decades of under-regulation have produced the concentrations of wealth and power we now confront, and that the survival of democracy in the digital age will depend on citizens, civil society, and a new generation willing to treat their work as carrying responsibility not just for safety, but for fundamental rights and self-government.","meta_description":"Is the future something to be calculated and controlled, or something we shape together through democratic struggle? How should we read the convergence of…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2708,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134/episodes/how-to-confront-the-threat-of-ai-dictatorship/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-tech-policy-press-podcast-1378134/how-to-confront-the-threat-of-ai-dictatorship.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}