Obviously ~nobody has read this yet... But I did have a question based on the opening:

"If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than artificial intelligence. Authoritarian leaders and technology oligarchs are deploing [sic] AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity"

So in the first two sentences we have hyperbole and typos? Hardly seems like high-quality academic output. It reads more like a blog post.

I read through it a couple of days ago.

Your read is correct; it's poorly written, poorly argued, and poorly cited. It's basically a draft of an op-ed with a click bait title.

> Obviously ~nobody has read this yet...

It was uploaded 8 Dec 2025, surely someone have gotten through it by now.