How Generative AI is Scaling Transnational Repression

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October 22, 2026

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Digital Transnational Repression
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Kate Pundyk

Siena Anstis

Marcus Michaelsen

Kate Pundyk, Siena Anstis, and Marcus Michaelsen write about the rise of AI-enabled digital transnational repression in their piece for Just Security. The use of AI models to identify, monitor, and target diaspora activists and exiled dissidents around the world demonstrates how the misuse of technology produced by companies like Anthropic can have an adverse impact on human rights.

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