# AI is a substrate of civilization

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-07-31
- **Theme:** Other — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/
- **Source:** Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)
- **Watch at:** 00:02:29 — https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/other/2025-07-31-ai-is-a-substrate-of-civilization-p7mv/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "AI is a substrate of civilization," Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast), 31 Jul 2025, 00:02:29. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/solving-ais-energy-crisis-with-decentralized-compute-w/id1792518750?i=1000720143134

## Quote — verbatim

> If you look at AI, it is a substrate of civilization. There are very few substrates that we have historically. We had electricity as a substrate. We had water as a substrate... So the foundational technology is not a feature. There's no technology or no area in humanity that AI will not touch.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His opening framing; follows with the thought experiment "electricity is so important, but it's only controlled by three people... How would that make you feel? It doesn't matter if the people are good or bad. People don't last forever" [00:03:57].