Erik Voorhees: The Battle for Human Freedom in the Post-Human World | Crypto x AI Event
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Hey, everyone. It's Tommy, one of the cofounders at Delphi Research and founding partner on the venture side. I am thrilled to have Eric, lead off our Crypto AI conference. Eric, how's it going? Going
good. Good to see you.
Eric, absolutely no pressure keynoting a a conference panel. Right? Yeah.
Well, this is what I like to do. Yeah.
It's so good. I saw your talks. Permission was everywhere. Good,
so I just talked. It
works. It works. Eric, I'm gonna open up with maybe a a question about yourself and and your your life. Right? Like, you've been a relentless supporter of human freedom, personal rights, pushing back against government overreach. We've seen you do it with crypto. We've seen you do it with SPF. Now we're seeing you do it with AI. I'm curious. Overall, is AI a friend or a foe in what I think is your lifelong mission to increase individual freedom? Great
question. Well, I'm trying to make it a friend. I'm trying to make it a friend. When I when I started learning about it, it was just like a curiosity. You know? And everyone's playing around with Midjourney and Chat gpt, and it was obviously profoundly interesting how powerful these tools were. But when I started realizing that, like, to the degree that they're centralized and that and to the degree that they will fall under various licensing regimes or control of various states, that got a little scary. And, I realized I can, like, sit on Twitter and complain about it, or I can, like, build s
pretty cool. When you were looking at the landscape for OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, and still decided to build Venice, like, completely uncensored, unbiased, LLM that people can access, Like, you clearly came to conclusion that those services will never be objective, uncensored, uncontrolled. Do you think that there's a chance you could be wrong there? Like, is there any way that those can be can be free? I
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