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The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore review – an ominous warning of tech takeover

Pulitzer prize-winning US historian Jill Lepore’s new book addresses the threat posed to liberal democracy by artificial intelligence. According to Lepore, the extraordinary power of private tech companies led by men whose priorities may not align with the wellbeing of the Earth or its inhabitants is set to destroy civilisation as we know it. Lepore’s concept of the Artificial State is capacious. It includes both a fantasy desired by a select few and a reality that is already with us. The fantasy is of an atomis…

Policy · P Space — documented harm · certified 2026-08-20 · v1 · article view · machine-readable

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AI-driven private platforms and bot activity are shifting public discourse to monetized attention systems that polarize citizens and threaten liberal democracy, while energy-guzzling datacentres damage the climate.

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Review argues the book lumps distinct technologies together under AI and robots, which raises the wrong questions about different harms.

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