Open-source AI will diffuse economic value to everyone, just as open-source software did for the internet — preventing a future where a few companies capture all AI value.
Freeberg argues that just as open-source browsers and servers enabled the internet economy to flourish for millions of businesses, open-source AI will ensure AI value proliferates broadly rather than being captured by a handful of companies and their shareholders. ✦ AI generated
David Friedberg · All-In Podcast · 2026-07-24 · original ↗
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If open-source AI takes off, then all the worries that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and all the socialists are harping and larking about are not going to be the case anymore because you're not going to see all the value of AI acrue to two or three or four companies and their small group of billionaire shareholders. What will happen is AI proliferates and a million AI integrated enterprises all over the world will benefit. Everyone will benefit. The economy will grow, jobs will be created and AI becomes a power for good for creating an open economy.
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22:06web server and be on the internet and create a website. And what ended up happening is the value acrewed to the internet. It didn't acrue to the small number of software providers that controlled the gate and the portal of the internet. Basically, everything got open sourced and Google took off and eBay took off and Etsy and Amazon and all the millions of small websites and all the millions of small businesses and
22:28everyone that benefited from an openly accessible open-sourced internet. If the internet was closed and there was proprietary software gates and portals throughout the internet that everyone had to pay to get through, the internet would not have taken off and the economy wouldn't have grown and all these jobs would have been called AOL and Coffee Serve like and now now when we look at this analogy, the analogy here is if
22:50open-source AI takes off, then all the worries that Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren and all the socialists are harping and larking about are not going to be the case anymore because you're not going to see all the value of AI acrue to two or three or four companies and their small group of billionaire shareholders. What will happen is AI proliferates and a million AI integrated enterprises all over the
23:14world will benefit. Everyone will benefit. The economy will grow, jobs will be created and AI becomes a power for good for creating an open economy. So the I know that some people that are listening to this in the government and that are on the other side are going to say but but but Chinese open source versus American open source let it all proliferate. And frankly if the Chinese
23:34are violating copyrights, stealing software, go after them for that. Put in place trade sanctions. Do all the you can do to stop that from happening. But fundamentally open- source AI will transform the global economy and it will ensure that the economic value of AI will diffuse to everyone and not be held captive by a small number. Why the 1% that controls open source if they have it the oligarchs are going to get their