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disempowerment

NOUN
diminishment of power or civil rights
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Maddox: The first gut feeling was complete disempowerment, devastation and anxiety.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Doerfler focused on the degrees of disempowerment, “from total to partial”:

From Salon Aug. 31, 2024

When faced with disempowerment, we might believe the antidote is to prove ourselves more worthy through additional labor.

From Seattle Times Dec. 26, 2023

“The vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction,” Mr. Sutskever and Mr. Leike wrote on OpenAI’s blog.

From Washington Times Jul. 7, 2023

The result, she cautions, could be "the disempowerment of many for the benefits of a few".

From BBC Apr. 10, 2022




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