# AGI centralization means digital feudalism

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2024-11-09
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Why Decentralized AI Needs Cosmos: Greg Osuri of Akash Explains (The Interop)
- **Watch at:** 00:25:30 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gGBRqzxrQ&t=1530s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2024-11-09-agi-centralization-means-digital-feudalism-42c5/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AGI centralization means digital feudalism," Why Decentralized AI Needs Cosmos: Greg Osuri of Akash Explains (The Interop), 9 Nov 2024, 00:25:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_gGBRqzxrQ&t=1530s

## Quote — verbatim

> It's very dangerous because now we are entering an era of digital feudalism, especially as we get towards AGI — whoever has AGI controls the world.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Later ([00:27:42]) he frames the question as "who are the Lords and who's going to be [the] peasants" and says Akash builds decentralized systems specifically to avoid a digital-feudalistic society.