The risk is a return to feudalism — including secret AGI captured by the few
Akash's Greg Osuri on the Future of Cloud Computing | Mainnet 2024 (Messari)
“The big risk as a society as a whole we have is the return of feudalism. Feudalistic society is where few have power over the many… the few today are the ones that are running AI… There’s this discussion about artificial general intelligence: what happens when somebody cracks it and no one knows that they cracked it? Because there’s no incentive for them to share this AGI — they can very well go and play in the stock market or do things that are significantly advantageous to the few. So if we don’t do something about this layer, we go back to feudalism… I call the term digital feudalism.” — 00:08:48
Context: The keynote’s central warning, framing hyperscaler concentration as a civilizational risk; “a future where corporations, or the digital lords, control humanity as a whole.”