
Alex Lewin
Developer, Finite Computer
View bioAlex builds private AI at Finite Computer, where the whole point is that using a model should not mean handing your data to somebody else. Harrison runs freedom tech grants at the Human Rights Foundation, funding the open source, privacy-preserving, censorship-resistant tools that human rights defenders actually depend on. They sit down together to talk about what happens where those two things meet: open models in the hands of activists, organizers, and defenders working under governments that would rather they had no tools at all. Where open AI is already doing real work, where it is still too fragile to trust with somebody's safety, and what the builders in this room could go and fix. Come with questions.
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