Censorship, propaganda, privacy, and self-harm are just some of the concerns decentralization advocates have with centralized AI models.
Artificial intelligence researchers from the Dfinity Foundation — the nonprofit behind the Internet Computer Protocol — and executives from decentralized AI developer Onicai recently released the Manifesto for Decentralized AI. The manifesto outlined seven points to ensure that AI benefits the end-user, including self-sovereign AI that works for the user and not large institutions.
In an interview with Cointelegraph, Onicai CEO Patrick Friedrich said the centralization of AI creates the potential for abuse by powerful corporations or state actors to control and manipulate populations in a near-absolute way. The Onicai CEO told Cointelegraph:
According to the Onicai executive, a solution to the problem of information censorship or manipulation is running decentralized AI through smart contracts on permissionless networks, which are immutable, open-source, and highly transparent.
