Digital feudalism: corporations rationing who gets to do AI
Greg Osuri - Democratizing Access to AI Resources - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2024 (TOKEN2049)
“The real risk is us as a society going back to feudalism. I call this digital feudalism… the future is bleak where a corporation or a business dictates who gets to do AI, dictates a ration of resources to use AI. And we’re kind of seeing that right now — you’re seeing Amazon and Google of the world rationing computing power… we call [it] the spice, but the spice must flow.” — 00:08:05
Context: His signature warning about hyper-concentration of compute power, with the Dune “spice” metaphor for GPUs.