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Hey, I’m Frank Emous — creative tech tinkerer exploring Detail for iOS, Detail Capture, and Subwave.

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  1. 24 APR ·  VIDEO

    Technology, Democracy, and the Digital Arms Race

    Frank and Jacco launch their podcast by diving into one of the most unsettling developments in AI security: Anthropic's Mythos model, which identified 271 previously unknown vulnerabilities in Firefox in a single night. The company made the unprecedented decision not to release the model publicly, raising urgent questions about who controls these capabilities and what happens when they fall into the wrong hands. Jesse Klaver, former AIVD intelligence officer and member of parliament, joins to explain how AI-powered vulnerability detection works, why it's like a defensive crypto mining race, and how state actors from Russia, China, and Iran are changing the cybersecurity landscape. The conversation expands to cover the Solvinity controversy in Dutch politics, the balance between accessing cutting-edge AI tools and maintaining digital sovereignty, and what democratic control over critical infrastructure actually means in practice. Frank shares an unsettling realization from the Fair Plus robotics conference in Shenzhen: if robots can already perform precision tasks, what happens to manual labor in 10 to 15 years when humanoid robots can be deployed by subscription? Digital independence, the future of work, and the fundamental question of whether technology serves democracy or undermines it emerge as central themes. Frank and Jacco are creating space for substantive conversations about where technology is taking us, without the usual marketing fluff, one episode at a time. Published on Subwave https://subwave.app/@femous/post/technology-democracy-and-the-digital-arms-race

    40 min.

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Hey, I’m Frank Emous — creative tech tinkerer exploring Detail for iOS, Detail Capture, and Subwave.