Years ago, I was at work and speaking with a colleague about the weather. “It’s going to be a one two punch,” he said. “You’ve listened to too many forecasts, you are starting to repeat exactly what you hear,” I said. We both laughed and didn’t give it a second thought. Think about it. How often do we hear a word or phrase and adopt that specific language, and how does it impact how we think? It happens more often than you realize. This isn’t new, although it has morphed over

Authoritarian leadership exists throughout the world and there will always be tyrants or groups that want to rise and take control. But today we are seeing something we have never seen before. The rise in AI and its potential use in an authoritarian takeover. The pattern of an authoritarian takeover hasn’t changed. It always happens through a series of small steps that may seem harmless, but over time the cumulative effect is anything but. What has changed are the tools a tyr