Ken Liu is a Stanford CS PhD student and founder of The Open Anonymity Project. Ken’s pioneering work explores the intersection between language models and data & user privacy.

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Timestamps

• 0:00 — Teaser
• 1:08 — Prelude: Introducing Ken Liu
• 1:41 — Monologue: The Open Anonymity Project
• 3:41 — Ken’s Path to Privacy Research
• 6:31 — The Biggest Privacy Concern for LLM Users
• 9:39 — Three Perspectives on Tackling AI Privacy
• 10:57 — “AI presents a Uniquely Worse Privacy Problem”
• 13:44 — The Open Anonymity (OA) Project: Unlinkable Inference
• 17:50 — Blind Signatures as Unlinkable Authentication
• 20:52 — Secure Inference Proxies
• 28:31 — Threat Model in the OA Project
• 31:39 — What If People Give Away Information In Their Prompts
• 35:58 — OpenClaw, Privacy Nightmare In Agents
• 43:00 — The Stories Behind the OA Project
• 50:14 — Intelligence Neutrality
• 52:22 — Safety Concerns in a World with Private AI Inference

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References

• Ken Liu’s Home Page
• The Open Anonymity Project
• Unlinkable Inference as a User Privacy Architecture

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