The Decentralized AI Society
The Operating System for Humanity
The Decentralized AI Society (DAIS) brings together the leading players in the emergent decentralized AI ecosystem to collectively promote the development of an open AI economy that’s built by and for the benefit of human beings.
Founding Members
About us
Building Pro-Human
Decentralized AI
Mission Statement :
A community of organizations that collaborates, generates ideas, shares information and unlocks funding to further the development of an open, decentralized, censorship-resistant and secure internet in the age of artificial intelligence.
DAIS will promote first principles, technology standards and policies that support effective decentralized AI systems founded on self-sovereign, privacy-preserving data models, digital assets, open-source code, edge computation and decentralized infrastructure networks.
Areas of Focus
The DAIS Value Proposition
The DAIS founding team has identified four areas of focus in which the Society can add value. Strategies and priorities for these and other potential work pillars will be formulated in consultation with DAIS’s first-phase founding members.
Engineering
DAIS can accelerate innovation to overcome the speed, latency, scaling, security and coordination hurdles that decentralized models face against the efficiency of centralized AI. A collaborative,coordinated effort across the DeAI technology stack will unlock a core crypto advantage: permissionless, low-friction development via open-source, composable software. The Society will champion initiatives such as a major prize for researchers able to solve big problems in decentralized AI development.
Capital
To help the DeAI industry propagate and develop, DAIS can boost its capacity to attract the vast amounts of capital needed to keep up with centralized players. Three possibilities:
- Funding and operationalizing a DAIS accelerator
- Promoting innovative DeFi solutions for capital-raising
- Fostering an internal economy for members to cost-effectively pay for each other’s services.
Policy
DAIS will be a forum for legal experts and developers to lobby for legislation that establishes developers’ rights and removes unreasonable barriers to the DeAI industry’s capacity to compete. DAIS can tap the founding team’s relationships with influential policy makers to draft rules that support token-based finance and provide sandboxes and safe-harbor protections giving startups a fighting chance.
Outreach and Promotion
Led by a team with strong ties to traditional media and a reputation for trusted information, DAIS will lead the DeAI industry’s outreach to the non-crypto world of corporations, non-profits, governments and universities. DAIS will generate content and stage events that encourage the kind of mainstream integration that’s needed if DeAI is to have the impact on society it deserves to have.
DAIS Core Beliefs
Decentralization and self-sovereignty
Censorship resistance
Open-source, collaborative innovation
Human-centric AI development
Combatting centralized abuses
Alignment of business incentives with the interests of users
People as customers/community members, not products
Societally positive economic and technological advancement
Collective action and governance
Transparency
Security, scalability and interoperability
Membership
DAIS membership status will be based on tiers, with a phased invitation process.
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Phase 1: Founding members
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Phase 2: Associate members
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Phase 3: Startup members
Founding Team
Michael Casey
Media executive, journalist, podcaster, author, public speaker, researcher and advisor. Michael’s work in media and education has focused on the opportunities and challenges arising at the intersection of digital technology and society. He has held senior roles at The Wall Street Journal, MIT Media Lab and, most recently, as Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk, where he built up an awarding newsroom and chaired the annual Consensus annual conference.
James Haft
Serial entrepreneur specializing in AI, Web3, and distributed ledger technologies. At PALcapital, James architected transformative businesses and liquidity strategies for the decentralized economy. As co-founder of CryptoMondays, now in over 70 cities, he champions the power of decentralized tech to democratize data and build self-sovereign communities.
Alexa Karp
Growth and marketing executive with over six years of experience in the crypto industry. Alexa has held leadership roles at various protocols including Lumerin, Metaplex, Synesis One, and ICHI. She is the former co-founder of a PR agency dedicated to helping grow crypto startups. Before entering the crypto space, she worked in finance and real estate in NYC.