Automated Identity Compartmentalization as an AI Safety Primitive

Surveillance is the alignment failure that makes all other AI failures permanent. AI-powered surveillance scales by aggregating identities. Naomi Brockwell from the Ludlow Institute is building an open-source, local AI agent that prevents AI-driven surveillance by automating identity compartmentalization and reducing the construction of identity graphs at scale.

Biography

In an age of AI-powered surveillance, how do we protect who we are? Naomi Brockwell is the President and Founder of the Ludlow Institute, a nonprofit advancing freedom through technology, and creator of NBTV, a privacy education channel with over 1 million subscribers and 100 million views. A former producer for Emmy-winning journalist John Stossel and co-founder of the Soho Forum debate series, she is the author of Beginner’s Introduction to Privacy and a leading voice on digital autonomy and surveillance resistance.