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The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025

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This site documents authoritarian tactics relevant to AI governance discussions, particularly around how AI tools could enable or accelerate authoritarian control; limited direct AI safety content but relevant to governance and democratic oversight concerns.

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This resource appears to document tactics and strategies used by authoritarian movements or governments, likely in the context of democratic backsliding and threats to institutional integrity. It may serve as a reference for understanding and countering authoritarian consolidation of power, potentially relevant to AI governance and policy discussions about technology-enabled authoritarianism.

Key Points

  • Documents patterns and tactics associated with authoritarian power consolidation
  • Relevant to understanding how technology, including AI, can be weaponized for authoritarian ends
  • May inform policy and governance frameworks designed to protect democratic institutions
  • Serves as a warning resource about erosion of checks and balances

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 The Authoritarian Playbook for 2025

 How an authoritarian president will dismantle our democracy and what we can do to protect it 

 JANUARY 2024 

 A REPORT BY UNITED TO PROTECT DEMOCRACY 

 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 In this Report 

 Executive Summary 
 Introduction 

 What We Can Expect 

 Pardons to License Lawbreaking 
 Directing Investigations Against Critics and Rivals 
 Regulatory Retaliation 
 Federal Law Enforcement Overreach 
 Domestic Deployment of the Military 
 The Autocrat Won’t Leave 

 What We Can Do 

 What Worked Last Time 
 Recommendations 

 

 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 

 

 
 
 Read a PDF Version of the Full Report
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