Alex Gladstein, HRF Chief Strategy Officer, argues that AI’s real danger is not human extinction but its centralization in the hands of dictators, governments, and large corporations. He describes “AI will kill us all” narratives as largely propaganda designed to distract from the more pressing concern of technological monopolies. Gladstein advocates for local AI running on personal devices as a potential tool for human rights protection, while emphasizing that CBDCs represent a repression instrument controlled by central authorities. The Bitcoin-AI convergence emerges as a potential counterbalance to authoritarian technological control.
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