Naomi Klein

&#x{44};}Naomi Klein is the chronicler of power in crisis. Her career-defining insight, forged across four decades of reporting from Chile to New Orleans to Baghdad, is that radical restructuring of economic and social arrangements does not happen despite crises but through them: shocks dissolve the collective capacity for organized resistance, and the actors who arrive with pre-existing plans exploit the window before clarity returns. This pattern—which she called disaster capitalism in her landmark 2007 book The Shock Doctrine—she has tracked into the AI transition with the same structural rigor. The AI moment, she argues, exhibits every signature of a shock doctrine event: unprecedented adoption speed that prevents affected populations from organizing a response, a blank-slate ideology that frames accumulated professional knowledge as “legacy” to be cleared, and a three-legged stool of tech, fossil fuels, and the security state making consequential institutional decisions while the public remains, in her phrase, “really not part of this at all.” Where