The Global Rise of Authoritarian Tech - Surveillance, Censorship & AI

Steve Felson is a senior fellow at Carnegy's democracy, conflict, and governance program where he focuses on

the intersection of technology, human rights, and global politics. He's also the author of two books, The Rise of

Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance that came out in 2021. And

then an incoming book, Bites and Bullets: Global Riberaly, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare,

coming out next year. We wanted to get Stephen on the show today to inform us about a subject that we think is just an