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This month's AI for Individual Rights newsletter #8 is out.
We cover a new report revealing how eleven African countries have collectively spent over $2 billion on Chinese-built “smart city” AI-powered surveillance systems.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA has committed $26 billion to building open AI models and partnered with Mistral AI to co-develop them. Open models can be accessed privately, bringing powerful capabilities to human rights defenders operating under surveillance.
We close with some reflections from HRF’s Alex Gladstein on OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant. He argued that it represents a Satoshi Nakamoto-like turning point: the moment individuals gained the ability to control their own intelligence.
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This month's AI for Individual Rights newsletter #8 is out.
We cover a new report revealing how eleven African countries have collectively spent over $2 billion on Chinese-built “smart city” AI-powered surveillance systems.
Meanwhile, NVIDIA has committed $26 billion to building open AI models and partnered with Mistral AI to co-develop them. Open models can be accessed privately, bringing powerful capabilities to human rights defenders operating under surveillance.
We close with some reflections from HRF’s Alex Gladstein on OpenClaw, an open-source AI assistant. He argued that it represents a Satoshi Nakamoto-like turning point: the moment individuals gained the ability to control their own intelligence.
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