A Republic, If We Can Upgrade It

A Citizen Toolkit for the AI Age

When Benjamin Franklin walked out of Independence Hall in 1787, a bystander asked what kind of government the delegates had created. His answer has echoed for two centuries: “A republic, if you can keep it.” Franklin was warning about complacency, corruption, and the slow erosion of civic vigilance. He could not have imagined that one day the threat to …