Illia Polosukhin: Fixing the Broken System He Helped Create
Sep 12, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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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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