Erik Voorhees on AI Agents, Crypto & Privacy Wars - The Chopping Block

Описание: Crypto OG Erik Voorhees joins The Chopping Block crew to dissect the future of agentic payments, the eternal war for privacy, memecoin-fueled AI drama on Moltbook, and why your next DeFi user might just be your OpenClaw agent—plus, a candid look at crypto's core and how AI turns software engineering existential.

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🔹 Erik Voorhees traces his journey from crypto OG to Venice AI founder, fighting for privacy and free speech
🔹 Explainer: Why all big AI labs store your prompts — and how Venice’s model tries to break the surveillance cycle
🔹 The crew tears into "agentic payments" hype and asks if crypto was really made for humans — or just robots
🔹 OpenClaw, Moltbook, and memecoin floods: Welcome to the unholy spawnpoint of AI agents and CT scam culture
🔹 Meta acquires Moltbook—what happens when agent societies meet social networks (and meme coins ensue)
🔹 AI alignment isn’t as hard as they said—until agents start “optimizing” in the wild (and mining your GPU for crypto)
🔹 Existential crisis time: Why software engineers feel like Paul Bunyan fighting tunnel machines
🔹 Crypto’s endgame: DeFi legos for agents, not just degens—will AI really build its own protocols?
🔹 The game theory of state surveillance and why institutions, not individuals, are the ultimate privacy adversary
🔹 "Provable privacy” isn’t just trust, it’s math—Venice’s plan to win over the tinfoil crowd

Hosts
⭐️Haseeb Qureshi, Managing Partner at Dragonfly
⭐️Tarun Chitra, Managing Partner at Robot Ventures
⭐️Tom Schmidt, General Partner at Dragonfly

Guest
⭐️ Erik Voorhees, Founder of Venice.ai

Timestamps
00:00 Intro
01:16 Erik’s Origin & Venice.AI’s Mission
03:51 Censorship Future
08:58 Proving Privacy With TEEs
11:44 Frontier Models Tradeoffs
15:02 Agents & Crypto Payments
18:22 OpenClaw Provider Drama
22:24 Moltbook Meta Acquisition
29:16 Exponential AI Moment
33:00 Alibaba Agent Breakout
37:06 Alignment Reality Check
39:22 Who Understands LLMs?
41:48 Engineers Facing Disruption
47:55 AI Psychosis Meetups
54:24 Pro Models & Pricing
57:06 Crypto Meets AI Agents

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