SINGAPORE — Industry leaders have launched a non-profit organization called the Decentralized AI Society (DAIS), dedicated to tackling the probability of the monopolization of the artificial intelligence (AI) industry.

The group is headed by Michael Casey, formerly CoinDesk’s chief content officer and chair of Consensus, the crypto media company's annual conference.

"The decentralized AI society is acknowledging the fact that centralized platforms in the AI era have a massive head start," Casey told CoinDesk in an interview on the sidelines of the Token2049 blockchain conference in Singapore on Tuesday. "They own all the data, they own all the compute, and I would say they own the regulators."

The eight founding members of DAIS include CETI AI, Filecoin Foundation, Bloq, Hypercycle, Morpheus, Hemi, Odyssey and Lumerin.

According to the new organization, DAIS aims to tackle four problems:

"What choice do we have," Casey said, but to fight for a decentralized form of AI, given the power of tech giants like OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Apple?

"I never accept the idea that this is too difficult," he said. "Somebody has to resolve the challenge."

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Edited by Bradley Keoun.