We enter a new era where the ability to use and collaborate with artificial and synthetic intelligence is human rights.
Access to Intelligence – People have the privilege to innovate, collaborate and benefit from a higher level of synthetic intelligence.
Based on increasingly cheaper calculations, rich data, and low-cost open source models, we are about to witness a treasure trove of synthetic intelligence.
You need to build an infrastructure that supports the multi-dimensional development of AI. So we’re launching the Oxford-based Thames Network. A decentralized intelligent network running at the edge, enabling private, censor-resistant, depolitical, and decentralized AI through built-in economic incentives and encrypted evidence.
“I am concerned about the concentration of power and loss of privacy that AI is guiding. The chief scientist, Professor Philip Toll, of Oxford scientist, has called for constant advances in decentralized AI. , it is essential that we think about powerful technical solutions such as blockchain, in the hopes of passing the power of AI to people.
AI decentralization
What does this open source, decentralized market, protocols, and incentive layer of artificial and synthetic intelligence entail? The release of DeepSeek has multiple meanings. It does not belong to one large, centralized company (or state) model. AI has moved from the center to the edge and is becoming more decentralized in the future.
Microsoft has announced that a distilled NPU-optimized version of the Deepseek R1 will be available on PCs. Users will be able to interact completely locally with new families of new groundbreaking models.
Neuroprocessing units are specialized computer microprocessors designed to mimic the processing capabilities of the neural networks of the human brain. NPUs featured in personal devices provide a very efficient set of features for model inference, allowing you to run semi- and fully-run service agents, not just when the generated AI is called directly Unlock the Agent Paradigm.
The move towards decentralization is more than a technical upgrade. It represents a fundamental change in the way we empower individuals. It says Richard Sutton, who is widely recognized as the “father of reinforcement learning,” while promoting collaboration-oriented AI systems, enduring the pitfalls of centralized management and promoting innovation. “Reinforced learning, rather than large-scale language models, holds the key to advance AI,” he said.
Democratize AI
The Thames Network will democratize access to AI in its first open source, decentralized AI market, protocols, and incentive layers.
If necessary, citizens are offered recurring payments to save lives – especially advertised by Elon Musk. This is not people’s first approach. This is the first approach for companies, and the approach to eating the structure of society. A better approach is to democratize access to AI and enable individual autonomy and sovereignty.
With new intelligence boards at the edges and new economic models, decentralized intelligent networks illuminate the ecosystems of agents working in collaboration with humans. This network creates new opportunities to democratize human cooperation rather than inclusion or exchange human beings.
Depoliticize AI
For human and synthetic intelligence to benefit humanity, it is essential to be unbiased, non-political, without implicit (or explicit) agenda. Censorship, guardrails and access restrictions based on jurisdiction, price, and other factors are not how humans and AI can work together effectively.
At the same time, privacy is important in domains such as healthcare. Decentralized intelligent networks must be designed with a privacy-first approach and architected by trusted foundations to ensure a zero trust security model while balancing governance, risk and compliance.
What could start with hundreds of thousands of models is accumulated in large waves of hundreds of millions of domain-specific models and curated, distilled and enhanced via searched generation (RAG). Thames Network focuses on human collaboration and provides tools and open marketplaces for people to build and monetize domain expertise.
“We’ve seen a lot of effort into this world,” said Bill Roscoe, director of the Oxford Blockchain Research Centre. “The world really needs the altruistic development of the rules of digital civilization and the infrastructure to support and govern it in a truly collective way.” The mission of the Thames Network is to Privacy and Collective Governance. to ensure that it remains at the forefront of technological evolution.
The convergence of distributed computing, blockchain tools and governance, crypto incentive protocols and mechanisms, and domain-specific AI models built and curated by human experts makes it accessible and transparent for artificial and synthetic intelligence. It shows a future that is safe, rich and supportive.
Presented at today’s Oxford AI X Blockchain Conference, the Thames Network envisions a win-win world of humans and AI. Others will be abandoning our responsibility as engineers, engineers, researchers and economists.
