Illia Polosukhin: This Is The Biggest Opportunity in AI

What if the AI reading your emails knows exactly what's in them, but nobody else does?

In today's episode, we sit with Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR Protocol and co-creator of Transformers at Google, to explore how AI becomes truly yours, not theirs.

NEAR combines blockchain with confidential computing to create AI that can access your Gmail, documents, and personal data while keeping everything encrypted and private even from NEAR itself.

We discuss why centralized AI creates an AOL-style monopoly on reality, how sleeper agents and hidden biases threaten trust, and NEAR's vision for AI agents that operate autonomously yet remain under user control.

Let's dive in.

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