Starting a new thread here where we can post resources we find on the importance of decentralizing AI.
Ejaaz Ahamadeen (former product at Coinbase and former product lead at ConsenSys) gives a good concise overview of the issues that will arise if we are not successful in decentralizing AI.
Here is the video which starts at the point where he discusses this.
And here is the transcript from this portion of the video:
Okay, so let’s look at the world where there is no kind of open-source development in this particular field, and we just leave it up to the monopolies to create their models. What that’s going to look like is they’re going to create five to six leading foundational models. Everyone will need to pay them some sort of subscription or fee to access these models. These models are going to become quintessential, essential tools that are needed for you to perform your job, live your life, and be integrated with humans at every different layer of your life. That could be friendships, engaging with people virtually or digitally, transacting with people, engaging in online experiences, earning money in many different ways.
So if we assume that there’s no open-source side, then suddenly these very few entities or corporations have a huge amount of control and influence over how you perform within your daily life, within your job, within your daily activity, or whatever that might be. The reason why open source is so essential is it offers us an alternative. It sounds very similar to what crypto is offering to the financial world and many other things. It offers us a raft or a lifeboat or an alternative set of rails for us to build and scale with this technology. To be honest with you, I think this is going to be the most defining technology of our time.