# The biggest risk society faces is digital feudalism

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-10-16
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Network's Greg Osuri on AI Fueling 1,729% Growth (Coinage)
- **Watch at:** 00:05:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8F-Ac0mitI&t=305s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-10-16-the-biggest-risk-society-faces-is-digital-feudalis-vlqa/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "The biggest risk society faces is digital feudalism," Akash Network's Greg Osuri on AI Fueling 1,729% Growth (Coinage), 16 Oct 2024, 00:05:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8F-Ac0mitI&t=305s

## Quote — verbatim

> The biggest risk as a society we face is the risk of digital feudalism... AI is augmenting intelligence, is really extending how we think and how we work. AI is a way to buy time so we can do more as humans. So we have such an important technology piece that is controlled by so few.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His flagship framing (also the video's cold open): like feudal lords hoarding critical resources from peasants, a handful of AI companies control access to intelligence.