🌏Introduction

Welcome to the Society AI documentation. This GitBook provides a comprehensive guide to understanding the platform, its goals, approach, and technical details.

"The sum of human knowing is beyond any one man; any thousand men.

With the destruction of our social fabric, science will be broken into million pieces.

Individuals will know much of the exceedingly tiny facets of which there is to know.

They will be helpless and useless by themselves.

The bits of lore, meaningless, will not be passed on.

They will be lost through the generations.

But, if we now prepare a giant summary of all knowledge, it will never be lost.

Coming generations will built on it, and will not have to rediscover it for themselves.

One millennium will do the work of thirty thousand."

— Isaac Asimov, Foundation [1951]

✅ Overview

Society AI aims to counteract monopolistic control in AI through a decentralized, community-driven, and open platform that promotes equal participation and innovation.

By building an inclusive and transparent AI ecosystem, Society AI empowers the community to be the primary “shaper” of AI’s future, ensuring that advancements and developments serve the public good.

This approach fosters innovation and equity, allowing the community to direct and govern AI technology towards beneficial societal outcomes. From this perspective, we surpass existing decentralized AI models that focus more on economic benefit distribution, rather than on the direction and the quality of AI itself.

If we want a more democratic world, history tells us our only choice is to develop an AI strategy that will help create it, and that the nations and technologists who have a lead have a responsibility to make that choice — now.

— Sam Altman, CEO OpenAI, interview in Washington Post [July 2024]

Ironically, centralized AI wouldn't be able to serve the above vision.

Society AI envisions a decentralized AI infrastructure where governance is not in the hands of a few. It is not an "either-or" option but the responsibility and result of the collective wisdom and participation of many.

By promoting decentralized and equitable AI development, Society AI ensures both that economic benefits and developmental directions are distributed across a broad community, all this being led by public will contained in decentralized governance.

Our core belief is that AI should be a public good—transparent, accessible, and driving societal progress without political bias. Our model ensures that AI remains apolitical, serving as a democratic alternative that truly benefits humanity.

❓What is Society AI

✴️ Society AI is building the infrastructure for decentralized AI, powering the next generation of AI applications. An AI Hub hosting, deploying and monetizing AI models, datasets and applications, governed by a DAO, financed by tokenomics, and rewarding the community.

• Creating a decentralized alternative to centralized AI: a community-driven ecosystem to ensure transparency, enhance collaboration and innovation, and democratize access to cutting-edge AI technologies.

• Building the 'Decentralized AWS for AI': covering the full AI development cycle of model hosting, training and deployment with a cost-efficient scalable infrastructure.

• Acting as the foundational layer for decentralized AI: Society AI enables seamless collaboration, innovation, and growth in the AI ecosystem.

• Governed by a DAO: Society AI ensures transparent and democratic decision-making processes, empowering community members to actively participate in shaping the future of the platform while fostering trust, accountability, and collective ownership.

• Token-Based Economy: Incentivizing participation and contribution within the Society AI ecosystem, rewarding users for their involvement in hosting, deploying, and enhancing AI models and datasets. Revenues generated from AI model usage, data contributions, and other platform activities are distributed among contributors, fostering a sustainable and inclusive economic model.

• Distributed Computing by Community Nodes: We aim to build the largest community-powered AI cluster, reducing reliance on centralized cloud providers, lowering costs, and increasing resilience.

🏆 Mission

✴️ To democratize AI development by providing a decentralized, community-driven platform that empowers developers, projects, and businesses to create, manage, and monetize AI applications in a transparent, equitable, and efficient manner.

👁️‍🗨️ Vision

✴️ To power the future of AI within a decentralized AI ecosystem where data and knowledge are owned and controlled by contributors, developers, and users, not centralized entities.

This approach democratizes AI, ensuring more equitable governance and distribution of its benefits.

• 100M People DAO: A massive, democratic community driving the future of AI.

• 1M AI Models and Datasets: A vast repository of AI resources accessible to all.

• Distributed Computing by Community Nodes: Decentralized infrastructure for scalable and efficient AI operations.

• Empowering Next-Gen AI Projects: Providing the tools and resources for innovative AI development.

• A World-Changing Revolution: Transforming AI to serve humanity through collective effort.

💰 Incentivization & Revenue Model

✴️ Society AI's tokenized economic model encourages participation, shares platform revenue with ecosystem contributors and drives adoption and growth. Unlike centralized AI, where only corporations earn revenue, Society AI shares its revenue with its community of developers, users, projects, community nodes, and our DAO.

1. Paid APIs:

• Society AI offers in-demand AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) through dollar-pegged paid APIs.

• Transactions for these services are settled in utility tokens, ensuring a continuous demand for the token within the ecosystem.

2. Token Emissions:

• Society AI will emit utility tokens similar to miners’ rewards on Bitcoin.

• These emissions aim to incentivize platform contribution by rewarding participants who build the platform and ecosystem.

• Coupled with the income from paid APIs, the token emissions create a mechanism similar to subsidizing compute on our AI Hub, allowing us to lower the cost of usage compared to traditional Web2 alternatives.

3. Reward Pools:

• Companies and projects can create and fund reward pools.

• These pools incentivize the development and improvement of specialized AI models, encouraging ongoing innovation and contribution within the community.

4. Staking:

• Ecosystem participants, including developers, node operators, and application users, are required to stake tokens.

• This staking mechanism helps maintain the platform’s integrity, prevent fraud and ensures alignment within ecosystem participants.

This incentivization model is designed to create a dynamic, engaged community that drives the development and success of Society AI while ensuring equitable benefits for all participants.

❓ Why decentralized AI matters?

1. Breaking Monopolistic Control

Decentralization is essential to prevent monopolistic control over AI, which often stifles innovation and limits the benefits to a select few. Decentralized AI ensures that the development and advancements in AI are driven by a broader community, promoting diverse innovation and equitable access to technology.

2. Incentivizing Innovation

Decentralized networks naturally attract top developers and entrepreneurs by offering community governance and shared incentives. This leads to a dynamic growth environment where innovation is continuously fostered, and the benefits are more widely distributed.

3. Open-Source Innovation

Just as the early internet in 1989 revolutionized technology by prioritizing open standards and community governance, today’s decentralized systems have the potential to similarly transform AI. By embedding community-driven principles, decentralized AI can become a foundational technology that is resilient, inclusive, and widely beneficial.

4. Resilience Against Centralized Failures

Decentralized AI systems are more resilient to failures compared to centralized systems. In a decentralized network, the failure of one node does not compromise the entire system. This robustness is crucial for the critical infrastructure AI will increasingly underpin.

5. Aligning Incentives with Public Good

In a decentralized AI ecosystem, the incentives of developers, users, and operators are aligned with the public good. This model ensures that advancements in AI technology serve the broader society, rather than just the interests of a few powerful entities.

6. Empowering Community Governance

Decentralized AI empowers communities to have a say in the governance and direction of AI development. This democratic approach fosters transparency, accountability, and inclusivity, ensuring that AI technologies evolve in ways that reflect the values and needs of the community.

⏳ Why Now?

1. Technological Maturity

Since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022, AI has been advancing at an exponential speed, while the technological infrastructure for decentralized systems has matured enough to support complex AI applications. Blockchain technology, peer-to-peer networks, and decentralized finance (DeFi) now provide the necessary tools to build robust decentralized AI ecosystems.

2. Growing Concerns Over Centralization

With increasing awareness of the risks posed by centralized control over AI, there is a growing demand for alternative models. The public and developers are more conscious of the need for transparency, fairness, and accountability in AI development.

3. Economic Incentives

The economic model of decentralization, which includes tokenization and community-driven rewards, provides powerful incentives for participation and innovation. This model can accelerate the growth and adoption of decentralized AI, creating a self-sustaining ecosystem.

4. Regulatory Landscape

As governments and regulatory bodies grapple with the implications of AI, decentralized models offer a way to align with regulatory goals while maintaining innovation. Decentralized governance can adapt more flexibly to regulatory requirements, ensuring compliance without stifling progress.

By leveraging these principles, Society AI aims to build a decentralized AI ecosystem that not only counters monopolistic control but also harnesses the collective power of the community to drive AI forward for the public good.