Decentralized AI Manifesto

This is an early and tentative document, intended to roughly summarize a line of thinking and to spur discussion and action among relevant individuals, organizations and communities. Many particulars discussed here are expected to evolve as more and more of the concepts described here move to practical realization. This is a living, evolving body of ideas. The introduction of AI tools and agents into all sectors of the economy, from factory robots to highly specialized electronic scientific brains, and the transition from narrow AI (domain specific, at best weakly autonomous) toward Artificial General Intelligence (broadly intelligent and strongly autonomous), are likely to be the biggest story of the next few decades. The tremendous promise and peril of these developments, which are already well underway, have been much discussed in fictional, media and intellectual spheres.