# Decentralized access is a precondition for open-source AI to exist

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-05-09
- **Theme:** Open-Source AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/
- **Source:** Where Crypto and AI Meet \| Featuring Akash, Bittensor, Gensyn & DCG (April 26, 2023) (The Bittensor Hub)
- **Watch at:** 00:10:46 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wJUY7jNDXQ&t=646s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/open-source-ai/2023-05-09-decentralized-access-is-a-precondition-for-open-so-lyjf/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Decentralized access is a precondition for open-source AI to exist," Where Crypto and AI Meet \| Featuring Akash, Bittensor, Gensyn & DCG (April 26, 2023) (The Bittensor Hub), 9 May 2023, 00:10:46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wJUY7jNDXQ&t=646s

## Quote — verbatim

> AI is undoubtedly going to become the most important technological shift that has ever happened to humanity... you have OpenAI, which is not really open source at all, just the name is OpenAI... sucking the air out of the open source AI movement. So I think for open source AI to exist, we need to decentralize the access to that open source AI.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Answering why he works on this; he calls it Akash's mission to keep "the oil that runs AI" decentralized, open, accessible, and uncensored.