The Masterplan: Decentralizing AI

Mercury Protocol argues that decentralizing access to data and computing power is the way to reduce the risks of advanced AI controlled by a few corporations. The article says that Phase 1 will open large amounts of real-life data to anyone who needs it, with data owners compensated and privacy protected through cryptography and secure hardware. Phase 2 will connect existing operator nodes in a decentralized P2P network, so data buyers can distribute training across many GPUs, with the number of operators capped only by how many are online.