# Digital feudalism: corporations will dictate who gets to do AI

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-02-04
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Network Explained: Everything You Need To Know Before Investing by Founder Greg Osuri (Founder School)
- **Watch at:** 00:08:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43OCZf2LO0&t=485s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2025-02-04-digital-feudalism-corporations-will-dictate-who-ge-5nsr/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Digital feudalism: corporations will dictate who gets to do AI," Akash Network Explained: Everything You Need To Know Before Investing by Founder Greg Osuri (Founder School), 4 Feb 2025, 00:08:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43OCZf2LO0&t=485s

## Quote — verbatim

> The real risk is us as a society going back to feudalism — I call this digital feudalism. There was a time in history that few people had most power in Europe and peasants had to depend on these people for accessing basic things like food and water, and that is a future we're facing right now. The future is bleak where a corporation or a business dictates who gets to do AI, dictates a rationing of resources to use AI — and we're kind of seeing that right now, Amazon and Google of the world rationing computing power... rationing, or we call it, the spice. But the spice must flow.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

The stakes section of the talk — the risk of hyper-concentration of cloud/AI power.