HRF’s AI and Individual Rights Newsletter

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HRF’s AI and Individual Rights Newsletter

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Each month we’ll share a concise roundup of the world’s most important AI stories exploring how dictators are using AI tools to repress and how open-source AI tools are being developed to resist tyranny.

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AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #16
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Sep 4, 2026
HRF’s AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #16
Chinese tech giant Huawei is bidding to expand Egypt’s AI capacity, bringing more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) tools into the hands of a dictatorship. In a country where officials already closely monitor and suppress dissent, that expansion could make surveillance faster and more sophisticated.
AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #15
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Aug 28, 2026
HRF’s AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #15
This week, Saudi Arabia’s state-linked AI company HUMAIN announced a partnership with French AI lab Mistral. When authoritarian regimes collaborate with leading AI companies from democracies, they may gain greater influence over how AI systems are developed and deployed.
AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #14
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Aug 24, 2026
HRF’s AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #14
Welcome to the 14th edition of HRF’s AI for Individual Rights newsletter. We begin in Afghanistan, where the Taliban is using tens of thousands of cameras to surveil women forced to follow its repressive rules.
HRF’s AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #13
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Aug 14, 2026
HRF’s AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #13
Across this week’s news, authoritarian regimes continue deploying AI-powered surveillance to better identify and track critics.
HRF’s AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #12
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Aug 10, 2026
HRF’s AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #12
This week we look at how police in Delhi shockingly used AI-powered facial recognition to scan India’s largest youth protest in decades, matching faces against a police database in real time.
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HRF’s AI for Individual Rights Newsletter #12
Aug 10, 2026
HRF’s Chief Strategy Officer, Alex Gladstein, featured on BBC World Service
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Jul 29, 2026
HRF’s Chief Strategy Officer, Alex Gladstein, featured on BBC World Service
What if AI could be a tool for freedom? In conversation with Owen Clegg from BBC World Service, Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at the Human Rights Foundation, explores how artificial intelligence can empower human rights activists, expand access to information, and help counter authoritarian uses of technology. Listen to the full conversation below.
HRF’s Chief Strategy Officer, Alex Gladstein, featured on BBC World Service
Jul 29, 2026

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