# Sovereignty means having the chip in your house

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-09-28
- **Theme:** Local Compute — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/
- **Source:** Building the Super Cloud of GPUs with Akash Founder Greg Osuri \| EP \#102 (Frictionless Podcast by Logan Jastremski)
- **Watch at:** 00:46:50 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrfHDg30-M&t=2810s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/local-compute/2023-09-28-sovereignty-means-having-the-chip-in-your-house-kyni/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Sovereignty means having the chip in your house," Building the Super Cloud of GPUs with Akash Founder Greg Osuri \| EP \#102 (Frictionless Podcast by Logan Jastremski), 28 Sept 2023, 00:46:50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVrfHDg30-M&t=2810s

## Quote — verbatim

> I want to believe in a world that we are going to have sovereignty on the AIs. The only way to get sovereignty is control the chip; the only way to control the chip is to have it in your house... if you have your chips, you're protected by the laws of your land.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Warns the alternative is "a feudalistic society where you have the lords that have control over all aspects of our lives." References his "come and take it" GPU shirt.