Not Your Keys, Not Your AI | ERIK CASON & JESSE POSNER
About this episode
The episode discusses the intersection of AI, data ownership, and the importance of self-custody in protecting personal information.
As language models evolve into extensions of memory, judgment, and decision-making—questions of ownership, privacy, and autonomy become increasingly difficult to ignore. In this interview, Vora founders Erik Cason and Jesse Posner share why the future of AI will look very different depending on our ability to do one thing: maintain self-custody of our personal data—with private keys, just like Bitcoin. A conversation about who controls the systems shaping human cognition, and how we can protect ourselves with the same ethos we protect our Bitcoin—this interview covers: Why AI is the most intimate technology ever created + the specific risks of centralized AI systems controlling sensitive personal information How Bitcoin's self-custody model provides a framework for thinking about data ownership in the AI age (Not Your Keys, Not Your Mind) Why data sovereignty may become one of the defining technological and political questions of the coming decades How you can protect yourself and your personal information from centralized AI risks—including data leaks, political manipulation and more. This episode of Bitcoin Rails is brought to you by my sponsors: LayerTwo Labs — developing…
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