# Without decentralization, we become peasants under digital lords

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-20
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Compute: Past, Present, and Future by Akash Network founder Greg Osuri at deAI Summit (Pundi AI)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:22 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhaDoqDXkIk&t=622s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-09-20-without-decentralization-we-become-peasants-under-uhby/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Without decentralization, we become peasants under digital lords," Compute: Past, Present, and Future by Akash Network founder Greg Osuri at deAI Summit (Pundi AI), 20 Sept 2024, 00:10:22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhaDoqDXkIk&t=622s

## Quote — verbatim

> These are the digital lords we are going to be bound to. If we need compute, we need to ask these people to do AI... we're all peasants, and this is the path we're going towards — a future where only wealthy corporations can control access to who gets to do AI. You will be rationed, you will be provisioned, and you will have \[to\] answer to new digital lords. That's the future we're go\[ing\] down if \[we\] don't decentralize sooner.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The "digital feudalism" thesis, prompted by Larry Ellison's interview about $100B AI training and private nuclear reactors.