Fixer, Financier, Spymaster: How the UAE’s Sheikh Tahnoon is Setting His Sights on AI Dominance
Citizen Lab’s Ron Deibert says UAE royal Sheikh Tahnoon is extending surveillance power through AI financing.
Citizen Lab notes that director Ron Deibert is quoted in a Guardian profile of Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Deibert says two decades of democratic decline coincided with expanding commercial and national-security surveillance, and that much of it centers on the UAE and Tahnoon. The article describes Tahnoon as a major AI financier embedding himself in future digital infrastructure, and cites Citizen Lab’s 2016 investigation of NSO Group hacking activist Ahmed Mansoor.
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