# AI must be owned by people, not companies

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-12-05
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Akash Weekly - November 30th 2022 (Akash Network)
- **Watch at:** 00:38:13 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM-WU0TaynU&t=2293s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2022-12-05-ai-must-be-owned-by-people-not-companies-6rxq/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI must be owned by people, not companies," Akash Weekly - November 30th 2022 (Akash Network), 5 Dec 2022, 00:38:13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM-WU0TaynU&t=2293s

## Quote — verbatim

> It's very important that we get this open source. If you deem AI as one of the most revolutionary technologies that's going to benefit humanity, it's very important that we get it right — it's very important that people own it and not owned by companies... Think about surveillance capitalism now, from Facebook and Google, to the world — think about surveillance capitalism when machines take over.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Discussing the rise of generative AI art (recorded the week ChatGPT launched); he notes most AI is closed source because "incentives are misaligned," an early statement of his open-source-AI thesis.