# Digital feudalism: corporations rationing who gets to do AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-09-27
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Greg Osuri - Democratizing Access to AI Resources - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2024 (TOKEN2049)
- **Watch at:** 00:08:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sv3EOSDnL8&t=485s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-09-27-digital-feudalism-corporations-rationing-who-gets-nc77/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Digital feudalism: corporations rationing who gets to do AI," Greg Osuri - Democratizing Access to AI Resources - TOKEN2049 Singapore 2024 (TOKEN2049), 27 Sept 2024, 00:08:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sv3EOSDnL8&t=485s

## Quote — verbatim

> 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.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His signature warning about hyper-concentration of compute power, with the Dune "spice" metaphor for GPUs.