Open Commons Podcast

The Government Shut Down
Their AI In One Week

0:0059:14

Raffi Krikorian scaled Twitter's infrastructure when it was breaking under the weight of the world, put the first self-driving cars on the streets of Pittsburgh at Uber, then walked away from Silicon Valley to rebuild the Democratic Party's cybersecurity from scratch after 2016. Now he's CTO of Mozilla. He joins Sachi Kamiya on Open Commons to talk about why we're renters of our own technology instead of owners, why his self-driving Tesla crashed with his son in the car, why restricting access to open AI tools is the wrong response to the security risk, and why he thinks the West is completely misreading the global race for open models.

You Are Already the AGI

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Audrey Tang, Taiwan's first Digital Minister from 2016 to 2024, now the country's Cyber Ambassador, and a 2025 Right Livelihood Award laureate joins Sachi Kamiya on Open Commons to explain why AGI should stand for augmented group intelligence, how 447 randomly selected Taiwanese citizens wrote the country's deepfake scam law in a single afternoon, and why she runs a local model on a MacBook instead of talking to the cloud.

He Said No To Closed AI

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Illia Polosukhin co-authored Attention Is All You Need, the paper behind every modern AI system. He was also the first of the eight authors to leave Google. While his co-authors went on to build OpenAI, Anthropic, Character, and Inceptive inside the closed AI economy, Illia took a different path. He founded NEAR, where he's building Iron Claw, an operating system for user-owned AI agents. In this episode, Sachi Kamiya sits down with Illia to talk about why open weights aren't enough, what user-owned AI actually looks like, and how prompt manipulation is already happening inside the AI tools you use every day.

AGI Will Never Be Yours

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Emad Mostaque — co-founder and former CEO of Stability AI, now founder of Intelligent Internet and author of The Last Economy — joins Sachi Kamiya on Open Commons to unpack why he walked away from one of the most prolific open source AI companies, what the next two years actually decide, and what it looks like to give every human their own sovereign AI.

AI Knows Too Much About You

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Sewoong Oh, University of Washington professor and Director of Research at Sentient Labs joins Sachi Kamiya on Open Commons to unpack what it actually takes to make AI trustworthy, and why privacy is harder than most people think.

The Economic Case for Open AGI

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Pramod Viswanath, Princeton professor and Sentient co-founder joins Sachi Kamiya on the debut episode of Open Commons to lay out why open-source AI needs more than a GitHub repo and good intentions.