I have been thinking about local privacy preserving AI lately and stenography circumscribes much of the challenge. Having access to sensitive data means you hav

I have been thinking about local privacy preserving AI lately and stenography circumscribes much of the challenge. Having access to sensitive data means you have to limit access to a lot of tools. That’s how it would work in a privacy context but the same tools are neutral to being used in a censorship context. It’s over 10 years since but it would be nice if important research like this at least touched on the egalitarian issues rather than presenting a partisan agenda. E.g. someone somewhere who has to deal with private data now also has to deal with even stricter restrictions, without any doubt. Sometimes I worry about researchers working on important issues with apparently blinders on. If we don’t self-supervise we just outsource the work, and in this case that means we are back to square one.