Mind the Chain: How Blockchain Might Decentralize the AI Age
AI has a landlord problem. Not because models are renting office space, although given GPU bills, perhaps they should negotiate. The deeper issue is that modern AI increasingly lives inside a small number of large platforms. The data, the compute, the model weights, the deployment channels, the safety policies, and often the user interface are controlled by the same narrow set of institutions. The result is not merely concentration in a business-school chart. It is concentration in the machinery through which other businesses now write, decide, recommend, price, design, and automate. ...