This week I talk to Casimir Wierzynski, a senior director in Intel’s AI Products Group, Cas talked about his work in privacy, taking me on a tour of the latest strategies that promise to unlock the data necessary to liberate AI. He talked about hardening encryption against the code-cracking power of quantum computers and about his work in connectomics with salami slicers for the brain that are making it possible to map the neural networks of our minds.