[REDACTED] 2024 | Digital Sovereignty in the Age of AI With Edward Snowden

Eleven years after Edward Snowden's explosive revelations of mass surveillance, another paradigm shift is underway. The world is embracing AI systems on an unprecedented scale, but they risk being used for surveillance by centralized systems. That's where the user-owned internet comes in. Blockchains and user-owned data can preserve individual freedom and be a crucial counterweight to centralized power. They can open up space to consider the ethics around building powerful AI systems. Edward Snowden will discuss these factors and others at the critical intersection of privacy, technology, and individual rights in the AI era. Snowden will take questions from the audience after his talk. NEAR is the Blockchain for AI Website: https://near.org/ NEAR AI: https://near.ai/ Intents: https://near.org/intents Chain Abstraction: https://www.proximity.dev/ Sharding: https://nearone.org/ For the devs GitHub: https://github.com/near Dev Docs: https://docs.near.org/ Devhub: https://devhub.near.page/ @NEARDevHub Connect with socials Twitter:   / nearprotocol   Blog: https://near.org/blog/ Medium:   / nearprotocol   #NEAR #nearprotocol #nearai