The AI Surveillance State Is Already Here
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Jesse Posner and Erik Cason discuss the implications of AI surveillance and their new privacy-preserving AI device, Vora Aegis.
Cypherpunk Bitcoin builders Jesse Posner and Erik Cason (author of Crypto Sovereignty) return to Hell Money to talk about their new venture, Vora Aegis — a local-first, privacy-preserving personal AI device built on the same self-custody and cryptographic principles that power Bitcoin. We dig into the growing collision between government power and frontier AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI, the EU's Chat Control and the US KIDS Act, mandatory digital ID and KYC creep across the internet, and why Big Tech companies like Facebook are quietly lobbying for identity verification. Jesse and Eric break down the security architecture behind sovereign AI — dual-LLM privilege separation, prompt injection defense, OPRF cryptography, formal verification, and Fifth Amendment-resistant key recovery — plus the philosophical stakes of AI, human cognition, surveillance capitalism, decentralization, and digital sovereignty in an era of centralized control. PRE-ORDER THE VORA AEGIS: https://shop.vora.io/products/vora-aegis-vip-deposit FOLLOW ERIK & JESSE: https://x.com/Erikcason https://x.com/jesseposner Get bonus content by subscribing to @hellmoneypod on X…
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Guests: Jesse Posner, Erik Cason
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Organizations: Vora Aegis, Bitcoin, Anthropic, OpenAI, EU, US, Facebook
Books & works: Crypto Sovereignty
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