Maria Nagawa

Maria Nagawa is a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
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October 2026, Volume 37, Issue 4

Will AI Surveillance End Bureaucratic Autonomy?

Bureaucrats who slow-walk, leak, and refuse to cooperate have long been democracy’s quiet sentinels. But autocrats armed with AI surveillance will root them out—unless democracies build new legal shields around the administrative state.