Comment by andsoitis
20 hours ago
I think open weights and local AI will distribute the knowledge across the planet, avoiding a single point of failure. All you would need is electricity and a computer. And if we have no way to access it, there will always be enough people who either have sufficient knowledge already or the hunger to rediscover things.
I think we are still a long way from that becoming an option due to the cost of hardware to run even the lower end models. But I do like this prediction of yours