Podcast
Root Causes 489: Does AI Nullify E2EE?


Hosted by
Tim Callan
Chief Compliance Officer
Jason Soroko
Fellow
Original broadcast date
April 24, 2025
Does AI kill end-to-end encryption? There is a contention that the presence of AI agents in the workstream will render your confidential information visible outside the encrypted communication channels and therefore that E2EE is pointless. We explore this argument.
Podcast Transcript
Lightly edited for flow and brevity.
In fact, maybe the next episode we're going to record, Tim, is going to be about Jason's AI stack, because I want to explain how I'm doing AI. It's a little different than most people. One of the ways I do things a little differently is I actually run the open-source DeepSeek-R1 model locally. In other words, I'm not going to a cloud server and typing in intimate things about myself to - -

