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Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin has warned that centralized AI may allow a 45-person government to oppress a billion people in the future. 

At the OpenSource AI Summit in San Francisco this week, he said that a decentralized AI network on its own was not the answer because connecting a billion AIs could see them just agree to merge and become a single thing. 

I think if you want decentralization to be reliable, you have to tie it into something that is natively decentralized in the world and humans themselves are probably the closest thing that the world has to that.

Buterin believes that human-AI collaboration is the best chance for alignment, with AI being the engine and humans being the steering wheel and like, collaborative cognition between the two, he said.

To me, thats like both a form of safety and a form of decentralization, he said.

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