Emad Mostaque on a Three-Tiered AI System
Discussion
Carlos Perona et al. :
"Emad Mostaque, former CEO of Stability AI, now at a company called Intelligent Internet. theorises a three-tier model:
This consists of:
- Hypernodes: supercomputers able to crunch massive amounts of data from which they derive algorithmic parameters: the foundational AI.
- National nodes: these receive the Hypernode’s model (the foundational AI) and retrain it or specialise it on specific cultural imperatives and national priorities. This results in a specialised AI.
- Edge nodes: meaning private citizens who personalise the specialised AI with their own private data. This results in a personalised AI which would not go back to the Cloud, but be stored locally on a privately owned device (you can run very good AI programs offline using very little electricity on commercially available devices).
The foundational AI would be open source, and thus would be made available so that it can be specialised and personalised by different countries or regions and private citizens. Mostaque calls this Universal Basic AI (a play on Universal Basic Income).
In essence, this is simply applying the principle of Subsidiarity or Sphere Sovereignty — a traditional, Christian, decentralist, pro-local, understanding of political economy—to a new technology.
This paradigm represents an alternative to the tech oligarchy’s proprietary closed-source model and the idea that progress requires centralisation by ever more data-crunching machines."
(https://leomagazine.substack.com/p/baptising-ai-algorithms-and-egregores?)
More information
* Whitepaper: Intelligent Internet Whitepaper. By Emad Mostaque.
URL = https://ii.inc/whitepaper
"This whitepaper provides the engineering blueprint for a 'Intelligent Internet], a protocol intended to not merely solve technical problems but to offer a new social contract written in code.
Our Master Plan in Four Lines:
- Build a Bitcoin for the Intelligence Age by minting Foundation Coins only through Proof‑of‑Benefit.
- Gift every human a sovereign AI in the form of an II‑Agent bound to a non‑custodial AI wallet.
- Scale that intelligence into permissionless coordination through the Common‑Ground protocol.
- Anchor everything on our shared inheritance of knowledge with auditable, gold‑standard, openly‑licensed datasets whose full provenance is hashed on‑chain.
Together, these four foundations create a self‑reinforcing loop where societal benefit mints value. Value funds more capability, and capability remains transparently aligned with the common good. This is the “Bitcoin of the Intelligence Age”.
Symbioism articulates the ethical North Star for these steps; the Master Plan states them succinctly; this paper turns them into protocol design."
- Intelligence-Backed Capital: To power this new ecosystem, we redefine money. New tokens, Foundation Coins (FC) and Culture Credits (CC), are minted only when validators attach a signed receipt that useful compute has been performed for the commons: data curated, models trained, or inference served. This is Proof-of-Benefit, not proof of waste."