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Why AI Needs Confidential Computing to Break Free

Confidential computing can safeguard your data and reclaim privacy from surveillance‑driven AI.
Why AI Needs Confidential Computing to Break Free
David Christopher David Christopher
Jul 18, 2025 • 5 min read
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While the timeline marvels at the latest astronomical deal an AI engineer received to switch teams, it’s missing the deeper trend of the entire AI industry being swallowed whole by companies that have spent decades perfecting surveillance capitalism. 

The same firms that turned your searches, messages, and photos into profit centers increasingly control the models running our medical diagnoses, financial systems, and personal assistants.

OpenAI is now required by court order to preserve all ChatGPT logs including "temporary chats" and API requests that would have been deleted

if I understand this correctly, it means data retention policies for apps that use OpenAI API simply cannot be honored pic.twitter.com/k989iTyzxb

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David Christopher

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David is a writer/analyst at Bankless. Prior to joining Bankless, he worked for a series of early-stage crypto startups and on grants from the Ethereum, Solana, and Urbit Foundations. He graduated from Skidmore College in New York. He currently lives in the Midwest and enjoys NFTs, but no longer participates in them.

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