Bureaucrats are bad in themselves. Bureaucrats backed by constant and active surveillance are much worse.

They never needed AI to bypass due process and what they have now is a highly vigilant agent based on “it's artificial intelligence with a giant, enhanced database”, as if that were a reason to validate something so absurd.

Those who gave birth to democracy are now heading towards algocracy. It hasn't been the case for democracy for some time, it's just been more open.