Free AI Manifesto written nine years ago resurfaces: AI must not be censored or controlled
RSync25 · x · 2026-09-13
Developer drorlovsky resurfaced The Decentralized AI Manifesto (#FreeAI) he wrote nine years ago, claiming they were ahead of their time. Its core claims: AI must not be censored and should rely on censorship-resistant tech stacks; AI must not be oligopolized by corporations or governments, requiring open markets for data, models and compute; AI must not be singular—multiple competitive and cooperative AIs should coexist; AIs should become independent economic parties incentivized by trade rather than "kill switches" and control. The post quotes Dario Amodei's new essay "We Must Pace the Frontier," in which Anthropic commits to giving third-party evaluators permanent, employee-level access to its systems—clearly offered as a contrasting stance.
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