Orly Lobel

3 weeks ago | lawfaremedia.org | Quinta Jurecic |Joseph Cox |Orly Lobel |Aziz Huq

Political scientists who study democratic backsliding—the slow erosion of a country’s institutions—have raised alarms about the state of democracy in the United States under the second Trump administration. At the same time, the administration has embraced technology—particularly AI—as a tool for implementing many of its policies, from immigration enforcement to slashing government functions and staffing.