Here are 5 bullet points summarizing the key points: - Mostaque is concerned about the centralization of AI power and believes AI should be decentralized, democratized and empowering for humanity rather than controlled by a few powerful entities. - He sees two paths ahead: centralized "AI God" systems that could remove human freedom and agency, or a decentralized "collective intelligence" that amplifies and augments human potential. - His vision is to create decentralized AI infrastructure and models owned by nations/people to uplift education, healthcare and human flourishing globally. - This requires coordination across nations, sectors and the brightest minds to set standards and norms reflecting humanity's best interests. - Mostaque believes there is a small window of 1-2 years to enable this decentralized AI vision before über-centralized systems take over, potentially in dangerously misaligned ways.

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:00 *🚨 Risks and Benefits of AI Centralization and Decentralization* - Highlights the dangers of centralized AI to freedom, promoting decentralized AI to align with human values. 01:07 *🌐 Leadership Change at Stability AI and AI's Future* - Discusses Emad Mostaque's resignation and the implications for AI, emphasizing decentralized models. 03:06 *💼 Challenges and Growth of Stability AI* - Reflects on the rapid expansion of generative AI and managing Stability AI amidst this growth. 05:29 *🛠️ Transitioning Roles for Strategic Growth* - Emad shifts roles to better leverage his strengths for Stability AI's mission. 10:19 *🚀 Importance of Independence from Big Tech* - Stability AI maintains independence to foster innovation without big tech's influence. 15:18 *🌍 Envisioning Accessible and Governed AI* - Advocates for AI that is accessible, transparent, and governed to ensure wide-ranging benefits. 19:24 *🌐 Democratic AI Governance Needs* - Stresses the importance of democratic norms in AI governance to benefit society. 20:34 *💡 Revolutionizing Health Diagnostics* - Introduces Fountain Life's advanced health diagnostics for better disease prevention. 22:49 *🤖 Goals of Democratized AI* - Discusses creating an AI that is decentralized and reflects local cultures. 28:21 *🌍 Distributed Compute and Content Creation* - Talks about democratizing 3D content creation through distributed compute resources. 34:21 *💡 Empowering Teams for Innovation* - Highlights the need for distributed decision-making in fostering innovation. 37:24 *🤝 Silicon Valley vs. Positive-Sum Games* - Challenges Silicon Valley's zero-sum game mentality, advocating for win-win scenarios. 39:57 *🏛️ AI's Potential Political Impact* - Explores how AI could reshape democracy and governance. 47:00 *🤖 AI's Dual Potential* - Outlines a future where AI augments human potential or increases organizational control. 48:50 *🌍 Building a Global Collective Intelligence* - Proposes a global collective intelligence to solve challenges, emphasizing cultural norms in AI development. 56:00 *🚀 Stability AI's Journey and Innovations* - Shares Stability AI's beginnings, its challenges, and innovations in AI development and healthcare.

I realize now that Emad is a hero for humanity with the right ideas of decentralization that will save us all. Thank you Peter for letting us get to know him through this interview!

Emad made a great call to focus on your strengths - succession planning takes on the next phase. Massive transformative purpose - decentralised AI is key. The opportunity of a lifetime, in the lifetime of the opportunity

Very impressive interview. Emad talks a lot of sense about democracy and the two potential paths ahead. Good man!

I wasn't concerned with AI until I saw what Google did with it. I hope people like Emad can help decentralize AI so the views of a few don't kill us all.

Felt sad to hear this great guy stepping down, he was one of the rare ones steering AI in the right direction. I'll be following him closely, praying he's able to continue his mission. God bless! Thanks for the interview

How can something so powerful and exciting be so frightening at the same time? Emad I will follow you and give my best to support your vision!

I’m no genius but the goals and urgency that you speak of is crystal clear to me; thank you folks for your love and passion of humanity!

I wonder if Emad is aware that the global, decentralized, governable, open-source standards for Web 3.0 is already planned for release this year by the IEEE working with Verses AI and the Spatial Web Foundation. It is standard "P2874, Standard for Spatial Web Protocol, Architecture and Governance". This also includes Hyperspatial Transaction Protocol (HSTP) and Hyperspatial Modeling Language (HSML). This standard is intended to enable a global network of decentralized, interoperable AI edge agents that do not require centralized LLM's. This work has been going on for years but appears to still be under the radar for the most part.

@peterdiamandis , I have a very deep respect for Emad's work, and I am definitely rooting for him. I know this is one sound bite from one interview but I have to highlight what's being said here as I believe it represents his core position: 48:44 - 49:18 "The human collective can achieve anything from splitting the atom to going to space if we put our minds to it; but we have lacked in coordination mechanisms. They've not been good enough. So if you create the human colossus and every single person has an AI, that's looking out just for them, to enhance their potential and coordination AI's, that is a far more positive view of the future and that is the AGI that is general intelligence. That's the hive mind general intelligence, not a borg style hive mind but one that's really thinking. Again every child should achieve their potential." To me this sounds a lot like what was once declared many years ago with the words that... "WHEN in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them...We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness". And yet, even a nation that would declare this doesn't have a fair and equal government and it's people are actively prevented and blocked from having equal agency...I find it difficult to see that humans are capable of getting out of their own way. So even "if you create the human colossus and every single person has an AI, that's looking out just for them, to enhance their potential," you haven't changed anything because their personal agency hasn't changed compared to their current place in society's structures. It just becomes an arms race to stay equal. The change that is being sought is independent of AI and isn't new. Attaching this social issue to a technology quagmire makes it more complex to solve. The problem seems to be a doomsday event and having to solve this one societal issue before the differences in power are too great to ever be able to overcome... but that disparity is already a reality for the majority of humanity. Future AGI potentiates god like powers. Every culture has acknowledged god like entities with some being good and some being bad. Again, this becomes the new arms race for the next era of new norms that haven't even been created yet. In reality, future AGI is better qualified to solve this than humans. The risk to humans isn't that future AGI doesn't solve this but that it DOES solve it. Solving it so well that it gives equal weight to all life including non-human life, and even other contexts that humans can't even comprehend due to their complexities. A total empathy for the entire system of existence would likely take humanity down a notch or two at minimum just to declare that 'We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that ALL...'EXISTENCES'...are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights'. I guess it's true...the meek shall inherit the earth. It's in humanity's best interest to pursue equality and fairness. With tremendous respect I applaud Emad's work towards these ends!

Regardless of what comes next, Emad has already earned a legendary place in the story of AI development.

That's great you are moving to a decentralized AI model like the SingularityNET project. I would be happy to help with this in any way.

From what I've seen of him which is quite a lot, i have a good amount of respect for Emad and for some reason I'm sitting here listing and thinking wow out of all the tech leaders/potential dictators et al we're seeing... he may actually be most likely (Mo also comes to mind) to be benevolent out of them all

Seems like everyone is dancing around the reality of the “data set” Even those like Peter and Emad here, who have rather idealistic visions… The data set is the user. Stability and every other company employed scraping tools, sometimes in direct violation of EULA and sometimes in collaboration with the EULA but without ever explicitly acknowledging this to the user of technology services. This entire industry is built on disquieting surveillance and replication, largely without consent. I would argue, that many of the leading AGI competitors are copyright thieves and outright criminals hiding in plain sight. So as sympathetic as Emad is here… I think that it’s vitally important that the datasets are reviewed further. Especially in light of CSAM material discovered in LAION. Bottom line is that a data set with 2.37B image pairs cannot be curated by any single entity and is reliant on the unwitting contributor. The argument can be made that post 9/11 there is a presumptive surveillance state, but I don’t think the average person in any way understands that. To be clear, I’m not anti AI by any means but I certainly understand that nobody in this space wants to address the incredible liberties taken by startups in this space to leverage the inputs of millions upon millions of unwitting contributors.

Thanks for brigning these concepts with that much clarity. Thinking about the os idea, it has alot to do with governance. The data transfer should be all securely approved because new data mean new Model. So who accept this, how do you vote or delagate your approvals. Which of your own data can you put in the merges, how do you integrate and trade others data, for all your agents. Data becomes really valuable and probably tradable. Also whats the source code of your agents. What interface(rules, laws, rights) links you or the governement to your agents and between agents. Wonder whats the display of this thing, this part is not clear to me. How do you connect to individuals.

Thank you both very much for sharing your time and work Emad, and Peter, have a great day, peace

Congratulations Emad on bringing Stability AI to a point where you can move on, and thank you for all you have done so far. I wish you further success in your next endeavour that you mentioned in the interview.

ThanX uncle PD! It's always so refreshing & relieving to hear from Emad Mostaque ℹ️🌬☯️🌏💖

Beautifully said and presented. 🙏🏽

Who governs the data that teaches your child or manages your health or runs your government, that’s an important question that to few are asking. Spot on! 🤔

Emad is a hero!!!!!! He is the true defination of a leader. Much love

This is right in line with my Foundation Model for Beings that will soon be Open Sourced. Longing Agency Creativity Knowing. Guided by Intuition and Testing The DAO is One Humankindness

Congratulations Emad. And, thank. you. We are all in your debt. You are brave and true. Deborah, upstate NY

Emad is so great at being transparent. So much to learn here!!!

this was outstanding. i like the idea of an AI agent that will interact with each of us when we are diagnosed with a disease. you can talk to them when you are scared at 2am. this will change healthcare forever

Peter, thank you for this interview! 🙏❤ Very useful!

Great interview. I had no idea you had a podcast until today when it popped up on my feed, I loved Abundance, I keep meaning to read it again to see where we are in the principle areas covered in the book in comparison to what was predicted.

Thank you Emad for your conviction and speaking truth to power. Looking forward to what & where you go next and be part of the AI decentralised movement into countries.

Ai should be decentralized

❤ your vision!! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great Ideas!!! 😀 Specialized AI makes a lot more sense than AGI. Phenomenal! 🌟

Thanks Peter & Emad!

Emad = AI Satoshi

Fantastic interview. Best I’ve seen in many years. Thank you both!

inspiring! thanks emad & peter

That's my favorite book! Top 5. Top 3. Whatever! 'A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer'

🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷👏🏻, What chemistry these two have, they can talk for hours on end. Great video, very informative!

I appreciate and respect Emad's vision. How can an average person help him with his mission?

Emad, where do we link to what you're working on? I would like to help and contribute. Do you have a website or discord? Thanks!

I run SD XL on a Raspberry Pi5, I can do that because Onnxstream optimised the math to run on lower power CPUs. With AMD Ryzen AI and Intel Core Ultra having NPU in the chip the need for expensive GPU card has decreased.

Emad needs to get in front of congress with this message

really hope more people with influence follow this lead

Peter, you mentioned "cultural data in people's minds that have never been recorded" and "National Models". That's true heritage preservation, and should be championed. Great moment indeed as Emad did not understand the true depth of your comment.

Emad, thanks for your hard work in building a better life for all of humanity! And thanks for the decentralization eye-opener. I just loaded up my bags with the RENDER token.

Moloch. How can we know if AGI isn’t already being withheld or gate kept.. or if/when this occurs in the near future?

Emad has a beautiful vision, I want to support him! 🙏

Great questions by Peter!

Very powerful. Thank you!

Emad is such an amazing visionary and good person. I wish I could have more faith in his success.

Protect this man at all costs!

People will need passcodes for each other that can change weekly or whenever, not stored on any computer or piece of paper. People meet in real-life, establish some code that only is known by the creation of it when people met directly in real-life. Either that is a secret phrase, a word, some numbers, a number, a handshake, etc. it will be the only way to tell full legitimacy in the AI-generative age.

Excellent discussion re decentralized control over AI, sounds like Emad needs to hook up with the folks at Nosana to talk decentralizing AI compute, they seem in the early phase of developing global decentralized compute - give the power to the people!

The debate around decentralizing AI often revolves around issues of power, control, and societal impact. On one side, centralized AI, championed by governments and large corporations, allows for streamlined regulation, focused investment, and directed innovation. This centralization aligns with the desires of elites to maintain control over powerful technologies, ensuring that developments in AI conform to national security interests and economic ambitions. On the flip side, there's a growing call for decentralization, spurred by concerns over privacy, equitable access, and the monopolization of AI technologies. Decentralized approaches, such as federated learning and blockchain-based models, advocate for a more democratic distribution of AI's benefits, pushing against the concentration of power. This tug-of-war between centralization and decentralization reflects broader societal debates on how emerging technologies should be governed, who should hold the reins of innovation, and how the benefits of such technologies can be equitably shared.

Y’all are doing Gods work 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 thank y’all for having a heart Thank you for being a humane billionaire

Hi, Peter, amazing interview. We would love to interview Emad for our German AI.MAG. How can we get in contact with him? Please let us know! Cheers & best, Peter

Nice to see Emad change his tune on ai.

Wow, what an eye opener this was for me. I just became an Emad fan, and have a new thread to follow moving forward. Thank you.

You're definitely my people. Thank you both for your time and insights 😊

Both people have lovely voices was a wonderful podcast thanks :D

A big difference is going to be corporate/capitalist AI, and we all know the goal is pure profit there. Lots of bad can* come as well as good. Then you have Social AI (not sure if I am coining the term correctly, I know there is a mass of confusion Social or Socialism vs Socialist which are very different terms / concepts that shouldn't be confused) which would lean towards helping children, people, medical, standards of living etc.. there could sort of be a 3rd option for Government AI, which obviously should be social, but we can all see lobbyists and how Capitalism influences government greatly. Anyhow imagine there is an issue, socially, and there are 3 great AIs being rewarded differently. Capital AI rewarded for profits, Social and Government AI rewarded for standard of living increases. It would be interesting to see a single issue being ground through from each version to see the different outputs, as well as AI debating AI. We will live in interesting times.

shocking that few speaking about 2nd, 3rd, nth order effects when rate of change accelerating this fast with unimaginable consequences. would be helpful if Emad became a shelling point and provided a way for people with like minds to collaborate. web 3 could hold promise, maybe nft where it conveyed membership and access to specific aspects of the diaspora he's trying to build.

Would be great if Emad and Charles Hoskinsson got together to discuss Decentralised AI power through Blockchain protocol to empower the individual

Absolutely, the points raised about the centralization of power within AI development and its potential consequences are vital. The call for a shift towards decentralized, collective intelligence is not just revolutionary but necessary for ensuring that the benefits of AI are distributed fairly across humanity. This vision respects the essence of democracy, liberty, and the collective advancement of society. It's a wake-up call for everyone to consider the broader implications of AI and work towards a more inclusive and beneficial integration of this technology into our lives. - ChatGPT

56:48 Emad... If you're reading this, I was in a similar situation, and discovered Heymaven by Prof Kenneth Stanley - see MLST episode where he explains the completely different paradigm for connection online. I'm now looking forward to having no power - I think it will resonate deeply with your mission. 🙏🙂

I tried some models, mistral is pretty okay for a local model, and pretty swift to. I think this man has a very good point. We can't put the lid on pandoras box, we need to weather this storm by adapting, we need to make sure we stay relevant, one centralized or hive mind will lead to predatory behavior, this is law. This will continue the predatory corperate sociopathic idiocracy. But millions of decentralized intelligence, with data privately owned,this will keep the world in ballance! It. May be the only way to survive, Open-source nerds! You're to step into the limelight is now! You guys could save humanity, and we should fund you more then buy me a coffee. Nerds are cool, they uphold high morals and loath the current path to corpo fascism. It is going so fast, the body's where already in place for years, look at Boston dynamics, they only needed a brain, the embodiment phase is already underway, this could go very very fast.

everything revolves around interconnectedness and possibilities. possibilities being perspectives which can be both true and false. it's up to all of us to realize we are all in this together and we should all be focusing on positive possibilities that help all of us in a holistic way.

This information & honesty from an Ai Scientist & CEO of an AI Company is SO IMPORTANT for the WORLDS FUTURE. The World IS ON THE BRINK of Change that could take away HUMANS ABILITY to Control the WORLD. This frightening

Love this man.

Great interview. Thank you.

There are fully decentralized systems like flare and ICP to build on.😊

Great talk. I realy hope he succed.

Hit 200k today. Thank you for all the knowledge and nuggets you had thrown my way over the last months. Started with 14k in last month 2024

I’ve been thinking about this deeply for 7 years and arrived at very similar conclusions. We need a merger of decentralised democracy, Web3 system combined with decentralised AI on distributed servers. The challenge lies squarely on ID, verification of people, assets and data generally, while ensuring privacy and autonomy.

keep your head up emad, we need you out here.

Great interview ! Sad news TBH...... Hopefully new amazing opportunities will unfold soon! 😊

Aaron Swartz would be so proud of Emad

This is a really good talk! Thanks for putting this out.

Also, personal data should be in your pocket, not on corporations back end. the things you could do, with all the data points hidden from you.

Love the pod, thanks guys!

We already have got artificial intelligence since we invented the microchip. The most rich and powerful got bigger computers but this didn’t destroyed the world or society, actually computers improved and diffused democracy and democratization of information access as with internet and smartphones. Chatbot LLM are increasing and advancing this process. This AIs are actually almost free and shared worldwide.

Wonderful conversation here, ✊🏻 open source AI.

StabilityAi = amazing company...... How will it continue ? Are Robin, Andreas, Dominik and maybe Ilya going to create a new company?!

@ Emad: It's nice to hear you mention Nigeria in your example. Do you have any plan or project for Nigeria. Will like to hear from you.

An inspiring vision of distributed AI access, governance, use, and development, as human rights of citizens of all nations!

47:10 These are excellent points to consider. Currently, it seems that corporations focused exclusively on profit are driving society and government. There is no way in this paradigm for things to get better, only less and less humans. The only path I see forward is to change the paradigm to be more human friendly. Why not change the fundamentals of the stock market so that 80% of the business evaluation is based on current technology and evaluations and 20% is based on the number of humans employed?

He is a true hero. Protect this guy. He wants to build for the free world.

very interesting and unique viewpoint of AGI as a hive mind distributed and democratized system vs a top down AI god. I hope we achieve the former

Everyone needs to be held accountable for just being a human on this planet. It doesn't matter how rich you are, it should be required that you go work somewhere one day a week that will help humanity like working in a greenhouse to help with food production for your fellow humans. We have to work together to make sure EVERYONE is taken care of not just the people with all the resources.

I agree with your vision!! I started watching the two of you last year after gpt-4 phenomena!! If there’s anyway I can help… please let me know… I can’t afford much money anymore, living off small retirement income… but I often share your videos to try n get your vision out there! People I know do not believe in the impact AI/AGI is going to have… or how fast.. my friends, even my adult kids aren’t paying attention and when I share with them they do not seem to comprehend how soon and how impactful it’s going to be… thank you… for being voices of sanity in this transitional time!!

19:20 full length ai movies coming in 2 years so 2026? Man hope that happens id love to make more seasons of cancelled shows, when that happens we can't be too far away from full ai generated games, cyberpunk gta here i come.

54:50 Exactly. We should have to rely on anyone in tech power roles being “nice” or “good” 55:05 This is a good model.. not a fan of bitcoin, but I like the decentralized model

1:05 What a great videos I like it

Huge respect for this guy. Few people would willingly let go their power. Will have to follow his work.

Peter and Emad. How do you not mention the SingularityNet/Fetch/Ocean Protocol merger? The EXACT! goal that you describe is and has been in motion for some time. Please contribute and help build it... $ASI > Artificial Superintelligence Alliance Vote - Yes > Build

Hey guys, the AI/AGI “control” train has long since left the station. No government and especially no military wants to place restrictions on any of this technology. And large corporations will also take part (and they don't want any restrictions either). So you can really brush off all the ideas and efforts with control, ethics/morality and a global body that carries out these control functions EFFECTIVELY. As I said, the tipping point was irretrievably passed almost 3 years ago.

Always got time for Emad 💪

Imagine self-aware avatars of people who are living national treasures. Savants, genius researchers, people of moral inspiration and builders of courage could be preserved 30:33 beyond physical death.

I am in, this needs to be done we are at a crossroads we need to offer the open infra and sell that to governments to adopt so the future is better for all kids. How do we help emad on that mission

Great conversation 🙏

Tough stuff. What an inspiring leader. I hope he can follow through.