Articles by Asker Bryld Staunæs

February 13, 2026

Synthetic dissidents: how AI protects dissent under repression 

Asker Bryld Staunæs
Michal Malý and Asker Bryld Staunæs argue that synthetic dissidents mark a new form of opposition politics. In authoritarian regimes, AI avatars and chatbots can propagate risky speech without exposing a single, identifiable speaker. This can protect journalists and activists, but it also changes how responsibility, authenticity and repression work 
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Asker Bryld Staunæs
PhD Candidate, Aarhus University

Asker is a practice-based PhD philosopher affiliated with Aarhus University and Kunsthal Aarhus.

He works with an expanded concept of politics, often at the intersection of AI, democracy, and art.

Asker becomes operative through diverse extra-disciplinary collectives such as Computer Lars, Center for Aesthetics of AI Images, The Synthetic Party, and The Organ of Autonomous Sciences.

Syntheticist Papers, I: Proceedings of the Synthetic Summit 2025

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