“If you don’t control the model, you don’t finish the sentence.” In Part 28 of the AI Futures series, we examine AI Decentralization. Today’s AI stack is a gated empire of compute and capital, where intelligence-as-a-service mirrors medieval land ownership. We discuss why a "one-size-fits-all" global intelligence acts as a new form of digital colonialism and how regions can reclaim their "local mind" through open-weights and edge-based infrastructure.

In this episode, we break down:

• The New Lords of the Empire: Why proprietary updates and API throttling are redrawing the boundaries of digital sovereignty.
• The Intelligence Capacity Gap: The hard reality that owning a model is useless without the technical and legal "muscle" to gov ...