--- schema: 1 type: video title: 'Privacy-Preserving Intelligence — Steve Korshakov, Bee (acq. Amazon)' description: >- A wearable that records everything you say captures about 10 million tokens a year, and within a week it knows almost everything about you. That is Bee, and Steve Korshakov calls it roughly the most sensitive capture device on the market, which is why his whole talk is about one guarantee: no one can read your data, not even Amazon, the company that acquired Bee eight months ago. Being inside Amazon made this harder, not easier, because an ordinary AWS customer trusts Amazon to see their data, and Bee now had to defend against that too. The encryption key never leaves your phone, and Bee never stores it. Before the phone hands anything over, it runs an attestation pipeline that checks the exact workload against a public transparency log, Sigstore, so anyone can verify the code touching your data is genuine. Inference runs on their own models inside confidential compute, keys in memory expire after seven days, and a separate Amazon privacy team holds the signing keys, hardcoded into the apps, so Bee can influence a deployment but cannot ship anything unnoticed. The footnote that surprised the room: the whole system is about 20,000 lines of memory safe code, most of it just verifying attestation, with no homegrown crypto. Speaker info: - https://x.com/Ex3NDR - https://github.com/ex3ndr - https://bee.computer Timestamps: 0:00 - The most sensitive capture device on the market 1:32 - The mission: no one, not even Amazon, can read your data 2:13 - Why the agent runs continuously, not request response 3:58 - Four principles: the key never leaves your phone 4:53 - Attestation and a public transparency log 6:11 - Own inference, confidential compute, and 7 day keys 7:14 - Signing so no insider can ship unnoticed 9:35 - Certificates that embed the proofs 10:16 - Q&A: joining Amazon, 20k lines, and taming agents canonical: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY' markdown: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY.md' llms: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY/llms.txt' parent: 'https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md' channel: aidotengineer updated: '2026-10-24T07:06:09.348Z' language: null children: [] videoId: IvE8n-ylFYY durationSeconds: 953 publishedAt: '2026-07-20T17:17:53.000Z' searchChunks: - ordinal: 0 text: null startSeconds: 24 endSeconds: 97 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=24' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 1 text: null startSeconds: 24 endSeconds: 97 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=24' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 2 text: null startSeconds: 24 endSeconds: 97 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=24' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 3 text: null startSeconds: 109 endSeconds: 133 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=109' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 4 text: null startSeconds: 143 endSeconds: 245 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=143' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 5 text: null startSeconds: 143 endSeconds: 245 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=143' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 6 text: null startSeconds: 143 endSeconds: 245 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=143' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 7 text: null startSeconds: 245 endSeconds: 258 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=245' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 8 text: null startSeconds: 258 endSeconds: 293 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=258' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 9 text: null startSeconds: 304 endSeconds: 371 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=304' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 10 text: null startSeconds: 304 endSeconds: 371 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=304' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 11 text: null startSeconds: 371 endSeconds: 383 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=371' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 12 text: null startSeconds: 383 endSeconds: 440 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=383' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 13 text: null startSeconds: 440 endSeconds: 452 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=440' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 14 text: null startSeconds: 452 endSeconds: 582 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=452' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 15 text: null startSeconds: 452 endSeconds: 582 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=452' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 16 text: null startSeconds: 582 endSeconds: 593 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=582' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 17 text: null startSeconds: 635 endSeconds: 725 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=635' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 18 text: null startSeconds: 739 endSeconds: 845 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=739' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 19 text: null startSeconds: 739 endSeconds: 845 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=739' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 20 text: null startSeconds: 845 endSeconds: 855 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=845' heldReason: rights - ordinal: 21 text: null startSeconds: 855 endSeconds: 953 watch: 'https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY?t=855' heldReason: rights --- # Privacy-Preserving Intelligence — Steve Korshakov, Bee (acq. Amazon) A wearable that records everything you say captures about 10 million tokens a year, and within a week it knows almost everything about you. That is Bee, and Steve Korshakov calls it roughly the most sensitive capture device on the market, which is why his whole talk is about one guarantee: no one can read your data, not even Amazon, the company that acquired Bee eight months ago. Being inside Amazon made this harder, not easier, because an ordinary AWS customer trusts Amazon to see their data, and Bee now had to defend against that too. The encryption key never leaves your phone, and Bee never stores it. Before the phone hands anything over, it runs an attestation pipeline that checks the exact workload against a public transparency log, Sigstore, so anyone can verify the code touching your data is genuine. Inference runs on their own models inside confidential compute, keys in memory expire after seven days, and a separate Amazon privacy team holds the signing keys, hardcoded into the apps, so Bee can influence a deployment but cannot ship anything unnoticed. The footnote that surprised the room: the whole system is about 20,000 lines of memory safe code, most of it just verifying attestation, with no homegrown crypto. Speaker info: - https://x.com/Ex3NDR - https://github.com/ex3ndr - https://bee.computer Timestamps: 0:00 - The most sensitive capture device on the market 1:32 - The mission: no one, not even Amazon, can read your data 2:13 - Why the agent runs continuously, not request response 3:58 - Four principles: the key never leaves your phone 4:53 - Attestation and a public transparency log 6:11 - Own inference, confidential compute, and 7 day keys 7:14 - Signing so no insider can ship unnoticed 9:35 - Certificates that embed the proofs 10:16 - Q\&A: joining Amazon, 20k lines, and taming agents Canonical: https://liquidgold.cc/watch/IvE8n-ylFYY · Channel: [AI Engineer](https://liquidgold.cc/channel/aidotengineer.md) > Search chunk text is held until public-source provenance is verified. ## Document chunks --- #### Chunk 0: Document excerpt (0:12 to 1:49) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 1: Document excerpt (1:49 to 4:05) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 2: Document excerpt (4:05 to 6:11) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 3: Document excerpt (6:11 to 7:32) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 4: Document excerpt (7:32 to 9:42) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 5: Document excerpt (9:42 to 10:16) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 6: Document excerpt (10:16 to 14:05) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text. --- #### Chunk 7: Document excerpt (14:05 to 15:53) > Held: transcript rights do not permit this chunk's text.