# If we rely on these companies for intelligence, we lost as a society

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2026-04-23
- **Theme:** Decentralized AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/
- **Source:** The Infrastructure Behind Agentic Finance, with Shashank Yadav and Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Fraction AI)
- **Watch at:** 00:35:29 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59w3DyJWAQc&t=2129s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/decentralized-ai/2026-04-23-if-we-rely-on-these-companies-for-intelligence-we-tglf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "If we rely on these companies for intelligence, we lost as a society," The Infrastructure Behind Agentic Finance, with Shashank Yadav and Greg Osuri of Akash Network (Fraction AI), 23 Apr 2026, 00:35:29. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59w3DyJWAQc&t=2129s

## Quote — verbatim

> I was at ICML last year. I gave a talk about training and distributed training becoming a real thing, because if we have to rely on these companies to give us intelligence, then we lost as a society. And that message seems to resonate quite well with a lot of folks in AI.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His strongest recurring framing of AI concentration risk; follows the "who can get GPUs at OpenAI/Anthropic scale" economics argument.