Illia Polosukhin: Fixing the Broken System He Helped Create
Sep 12, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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Summary
Ilya Polosukhin, co-author of "Attention Is All You Need," discusses the broken state of centralized AI and advocates for user-owned AI, focusing on privacy, verifiability, and user alignment over corporate interests. He introduces NEAR Protocol's decentralized confidential machine learning, enabling secure model monetization and autonomous AI agents. The episode explores the vision for a peer-to-peer AI ecosystem, addressing challenges in training, data context, and explainability.Episode description
Illia Polosukhin, co-author of Attention Is All You Need and co-founder of NEAR Protocol, believes today's centralized AI ecosystem is broken. In this episode, he explains why User-Owned AI is the path forward — making systems private, verifiable, and aligned with users rather than corporations. We explore confidential computing, interoperable AI agents, and what a more sustainable AI future might really look like.
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