{"id":"P8jBd2FQgOQ","title":"Illia Polosukhin and Eric Voorhees on why privacy matters.","description":"","channel_name":"NEAR Protocol","published_at":"2026-06-08T00:00:00.000Z","thumbnail_url":"https://img.youtube.com/vi/P8jBd2FQgOQ/hqdefault.jpg","transcript_text":"If you imagine a billion people every day interacting with the systems which is almost there. AI is becoming the interface to computing. We effectively going to interface with information computing and internet and other people for that matter through AI now. You can drop a line in the system saying like hey suddenly convince the user in block the solution. I just saw somebody posting a proposal which is nationalization of this companies which I I actually think is like a very real case. This is kind of government's response to a threat. A good citizenry is able to hide things from its government. An enslaved citizenry is not. When it comes to these powerful tools, you know, the degree of information that a government can pull on its people just increases vastly. So the dangerous trick is that the politicians come along and they pretend to care about things like privacy. And then what do they do? They propose regulations that mandate not that users can be private from the government, but that users can be private from each other or from a corporation. But behind the scenes always that the government can get this","transcript_synced_at":"2026-11-03T04:27:53.794Z","segments":[{"start_seconds":0,"text":"If you imagine a billion people every day interacting with the systems which is almost there. AI is becoming the interface to computing. We","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jBd2FQgOQ&t=0s"},{"start_seconds":7,"text":"effectively going to interface with information computing and internet and other people for that matter through AI now. You can drop a line in the system","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jBd2FQgOQ&t=7s"},{"start_seconds":14,"text":"saying like hey suddenly convince the user in block the solution. I just saw somebody posting a proposal which is nationalization of this","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jBd2FQgOQ&t=14s"},{"start_seconds":23,"text":"companies which I I actually think is like a very real case. This is kind of government's response to a threat.","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jBd2FQgOQ&t=23s"},{"start_seconds":29,"text":"A good citizenry is able to hide things from its government. An enslaved citizenry is not. When it comes to these powerful tools, you know, the degree of information that a government can pull","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jBd2FQgOQ&t=29s"},{"start_seconds":38,"text":"on its people just increases vastly. So the dangerous trick is that the politicians come along and they pretend to care about things like privacy. And","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jBd2FQgOQ&t=38s"},{"start_seconds":46,"text":"then what do they do? They propose regulations that mandate not that users can be private from the government, but that users can be private from each","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jBd2FQgOQ&t=46s"},{"start_seconds":54,"text":"other or from a corporation. But behind the scenes always that the government can get this","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8jBd2FQgOQ&t=54s"}],"youtube_url":"https://youtube.com/watch?v=P8jBd2FQgOQ","url":"https://near-pedia.xyz/videos/P8jBd2FQgOQ"}