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    "parsed_content": "AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTOpinionSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTMichelle GoldbergHe Studied Cognitive Science at Stanford. Then He Wrote a Startling Play About A.I. Authoritarianism.Feb. 16, 2026, 5:03 a.m. ETKaran Brar, who plays Maneesh in \u201cData.\u201dCredit...Rachel Papo for The New York TimesListen to this article \u00b7 6:21 min Learn moreShare full articleBy Michelle GoldbergOpinion ColumnistWhen I saw \u201cData,\u201d a zippy Off Broadway play about the ethical crises of employees at a Palantir-like A.I. company, last month, I was struck by its prescience. It\u2019s about a brilliant, conflicted computer programmer pulled into a secret project \u2014 stop reading here if you want to avoid spoilers \u2014 to win a Department of Homeland Security contract for a database tracking immigrants. A brisk theatrical thriller, the play perfectly captures the slick, grandiose language with which tech titans justify their potentially totalitarian projects to the public and perhaps to themselves.\u201cData is the language of our time,\u201d says a data analytics manager named Alex, sounding a lot like the Palantir chief Alex Karp. \u201cAnd like all languages, its narratives will be written by the victors. So if those fluent in the language don\u2019t help democracy flourish, we hurt it. And if we don\u2019t win this contract, someone else less fluent will.\u201dI\u2019m always on the lookout for art that tries to make sense of our careening, crises-ridden political moment, and found the play invigorating. But over the last two weeks, as events in the real world have come to echo some of the plot points in \u201cData,\u201d it\u2019s started to seem almost prophetic.Its protagonist, Maneesh, has created an algorithm with frighteningly accurate predictive powers. When I saw the play, I had no idea whether such technology was really on the horizon. But this week, The Atlantic reported on Mantic, a start-up whose A.I. engine outperforms many of the best human forecasters across domains from politics to sports to entertainment.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTI also wondered how many of the people unleashing A.I. tools on us really share the angst of Maneesh and his co-worker, Riley, who laments, \u201cI come here every day and I make the world a worse place.\u201d That\u2019s what I think most people who work on A.I. are doing, but it was hard to imagine that many of them think that, immersed as they are in a culture that lauds them as heroic explorers on the cusp of awe-inspiring breakthroughs in human \u2014 or maybe post-human \u2014 possibility. As a New York magazine review of \u201cData\u201d put it, \u201cWho gets so far at work without thinking through \u2014 and long since justifying \u2014 the consequences?\u201dSign up for the Opinion Today newsletter Get expert analysis of the news and a guide to the big ideas shaping the world every weekday morning. Get it sent to your inbox.But last week, Mrinank Sharma, a safety researcher at Anthropic, quit with the sort of open letter than would have seemed wildly overwrought in a theatrical script. \u201cThe world is in peril,\u201d he wrote, describing constant pressure at work \u201cto set aside what matters most.\u201d Henceforth, said Sharma, he would devote himself to \u201ccommunity building\u201d and poetry. Two days later Zo\u00eb Hitzig, a researcher at OpenAI, announced her resignation in The New York Times, describing the way the tool could use people\u2019s intimate data to target them with ads.I reached out to the writer of \u201cData,\u201d Matthew Libby, because I was curious about how he got so much so right, and learned that before he worked in theater, he studied cognitive science at Stanford. More specifically, he has a degree in symbolic systems, an interdisciplinary program that combines subjects including computer science, philosophy and psychology. He always intended to be a writer, he said, but wanted to make sure he had something to write about.\n \n \n \n Know someone who would want to read this? Share the column.\n \n Link Copied\n \n \n \n \n \n Not surprisingly, Libby, who graduated in 2017, felt the pull of Silicon Valley, at one point interviewing for an internship at Palantir. He was heartbroken when he didn\u2019t get it. But when he came across a 2017 Intercept story headlined \u201cPalantir Provides the Engine for Donald Trump\u2019s Deportation Machine,\u201d he wondered what he would have done if he\u2019d worked there, which is how \u201cData\u201d was born.Perhaps the most interesting thing about \u201cData\u201d isn\u2019t its insight into those who leave companies making dangerous A.I., but into the majority who stay, and the stories they tell themselves about what they\u2019re building. \u201cMy experience of the tech industry is just that there\u2019s always this air of inevitability,\u201d said Libby. \u201cYou know, \u2018We can\u2019t pause any of this because it\u2019s coming no matter what, and don\u2019t you want to be the person doing it?\u2019\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTAmong technologies, A.I. is unique in that those who are creating it \u2014 and profiting off it \u2014 will from time to time warn that it could destroy humanity. As Sam Altman said in 2015, shortly before helping found OpenAI, \u201cI think that A.I. will probably, most likely, sort of lead to the end of the world. But in the meantime, there will be great companies created with serious machine learning.\u201d A slightly truncated version of that quote appears as an epigraph in Libby\u2019s script.Just last month Dario Amodei, who leads Anthropic, the most seemingly responsible of the A.I. giants, published an essay titled \u201cThe Adolescence of Technology,\u201d about potential A.I. apocalypses. A.I. systems, he wrote, could turn against humankind or help to create biological weapons. They could be used to build a digital panopticon more comprehensive than anything existing today, or develop propaganda so precisely tailored to its users that it would amount to brainwashing.But as Amodei sees it, these hellish possibilities are less reasons to slow A.I. development, or to keep it out of the hands of the surveillance state, than to make sure that the United States stays ahead of China. \u201cIt makes sense to use A.I. to empower democracies to resist autocracies,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThis is the reason Anthropic considers it important to provide A.I. to the intelligence and defense communities in the U.S. and its democratic allies.\u201d His argument would be sounder if the United States was still, in any meaningful sense, part of a coalition of democracies, rather than a nation ruled by an aspiring autocrat who is propped up in no small part by the tech industry.In \u201cData,\u201d Alex makes a similar argument for bidding on the Department of Homeland Security contract. \u201cWe\u2019re the fighters protecting democracy,\u201d he says. \u201cChina already has an automated social credit system they\u2019re exporting to developing nations. Russia has the most targeted disinformation infrastructure known to man. That\u2019s what they\u2019re innovating towards. If we stop innovating? We lose our lead.\u201d The threat of authoritarianism abroad becomes a rationale for building the tools of digital authoritarianism at home. Too bad it\u2019s not just fiction.The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. We\u2019d like to hear what you think about this or any of our articles. Here are some tips. And here\u2019s our email: letters@nytimes.com.Follow the New York Times Opinion section on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Bluesky, WhatsApp and Threads.Michelle Goldberg has been an Opinion columnist since 2017. She is the author of several books about politics, religion and women\u2019s rights and was part of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2018 for reporting on workplace sexual harassment. Share full articleRelated ContentAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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