S8 E6 | Can Agentic Tech Take Down Surveillance Capitalism? w/Zoe Weinberg (ex/ante)

Rehash: A Web3 Podcast

On this episode of Rehash, we’re speaking with Zoe Weinberg, Founder and Managing Partner at ex/ante, the first venture fund dedicated to agentic tech.

We start our conversation by getting a little insight into Zoe’s background, which is quite unique and unusual but also lends itself quite well to the work she’s doing today in privacy and human agency.

She shares the ways in which her past humanitarian work in conflict zones and developing nations opened her eyes to issues around surveillance capitalism and how she had her first big realization of how crypto can change individuals’ lives in meaningful ways when she met a group of Bitcoin miners in Iraq during the Mosul conflict when Iraq successfully took back the city of Mosul from the Islamic State.

We then dive into some big topics around agentic tech, including user control, consent, privacy, and online (and onchain) data sharing. Zoe envisions a world where humans have full agency over how their information and data are used and we talk about what it might take for us to get there.

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LINKS

• The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power by Shoshana Zuboff: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Surveillance-Capitalism-Future-Frontier/dp/1610395697
• Privacy Party (prev: Block Party): https://www.blockpartyapp.com/#privacyparty/
• ex/ante Substack: https://buildexante.substack.com/

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro

2:35 Zoe’s background

5:52 When crypto saves lives

10:24 How surveillance capitalism has developed over time

15:31 State vs corporate surveillance capitalism

18:02 Will online privacy regulations improve over time?

23:07 What is agentic tech?

29:14 What impact can agentic tech have in our lives?

34:40 How do user control and consent fit into a public blockchain?

36:46 Examples of agentic tech solutions

45:14 Ideal end state if agentic tech succeeds

48:00 Can You Not

49:40 Follow Zoe and ex/ante

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