Human Rights Foundation Launches First-ever AI for Individual Rights Initiatives

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI, 19 May 2025

Bereket Alemayehu | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service

15 May 2025 – On 14 May 2025, the USA-based Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced the launch of its first-ever homepage for its AI for Individual Rights initiatives. The program is said to be the world’s first to expose artificial intelligence (AI) used by autocrats as tools of repression and support open-source AI tools in the hands of dissidents, especially those oppressed under tyranny.

According to the press release, a new initiative of HRF’s focus is on this area and helps users understand how AI can both be a tool of repression and a tool of liberation. HRF’s AI for Individual Rights program seeks to document and expose how autocrats use AI to crush dissent and to counter this trend by supporting the creation and use of open-source AI tools by dissidents living under tyranny.

The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. It was founded in 2005 and opened its New York office in 2006. HRF was created with the strong backing of numerous freedom champions, including Elie Wiesel, a survivor of the Nazi dictatorship, and Václav Havel, who stood against the Eastern bloc’s regime in Czechoslovakia. These individuals, who peacefully resisted oppressive regimes, were prisoners of conscience under tyrannies of all kinds.

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