Bankless · 2026-06-23 · 57 min
What happens when powerful AI requires an ID, governments can restrict access by country, and your most private data flows through centralized systems? NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin joins David to explain why AI export controls could fracture the internet, how nationalized AI could become a surveillance layer, and why decentralized, user-owned AI may be the only real alternative. They also unpack Ironclaw, confidential inference, private agents, and NEAR’s push to make AI and assets fully sovereign. - SPOTIFY PREMIUM RSS FEED | USE CODE: SPOTIFY24 - BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS: POLYMARKET | #1 PREDICTION MARKET OKX | TRADE, EARN, PAY to OKX | 120M+ USERS WORLDWIDE METAMASK | DOWNLOAD NOW BRIX | EMERGING MARKET YIELD BITGET | TOKENIZED STOCKS 2.0 THE DEFI REPORT | ONCHAIN INSIGHTS - TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 3:47 Pandora’s Box Opens 6:03 AI Meets Government 7:16 Decentralizing the Stack 8:51 Why Ban Fable? 11:18 Internet Balkanization 13:57 KYC for AI?
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