COMPANION INTELLIGENCE MANIFESTO
We pour our lives into the internet, but it doesn't belong to us.
Every search, click, and message we send becomes fuel for a system we cannot see or control. Powerful corporations hoard our data, amassing vast repositories of intimate knowledge. Advanced machine learning algorithms analyze and manipulate our behavior, predicting our desires and steering our decisions—not for our benefit, but to amass wealth for faceless entities, not our wealth or our communities.
This is surveillance capitalism: a system where your thoughts, habits, and relationships are commodities to be bought and sold. It’s a framework designed not just to monitor but to influence, nudging us toward consumption, compliance, and conformity. Governments, too, often play a compromising role, failing to protect our data or even co-opting it for their own purposes. We buy and consume from the whims of nefarious influence, not driven by values. We do it to the point we consume the whole planet.
Soon, you'll need an AI to be competitive and access vital knowledge, which might lead to conversational AI taking over the way we interact with all current systems. Will we allow corporations to own the Internet and our lives, or will we create a digital age that belongs to everyone?
A Better Way Forward: Companion Intelligence.
We can all start with ourselves: take back control of our data and decisions. Turn the chaos of scattered digital traces into a seamless, organized, and searchable memory. Build a secure moat where your data and computing resources remain yours alone. Intelligently consume without waste and create with intention. With a Companion AI, you gain a partner that reconstructs your past, anticipates your intent in the present, and helps guide us toward our best future.
Trustworthy and for you, Self-Sovereign. By creating a cloud of your own existing at your home or encrypted in the cloud, you have a safe individual space for your machine learning. We aim to give everyone a perfect digital memory and artificial agent with an objective reflection of their true self advocating for your intent.
As our data becomes more organized, we gain clarity and direction. We're witnessing an unprecedented leap in human understanding. Who are we? How do we connect with each other? Our individual database, complete with trustworthy information, can provide insights, even wisdom.
To reclaim our digital lives, we must start now. It begins with architecting and integrating personal AI assistants that honor our humanity, protect our privacy, and uphold our freedom.
Join the Movement.
Do you share our vision? Join us. Though we may be small, we are mighty—ready to show up to own the alternative we want to see. We're connecting with advocacy groups, aligned organizations, and proponents of open technology; we need help from everyone. Help build experiments and test what’s possible. Connect with advocacy groups and aligned organizations to strengthen our collective effort.
We are joining forces with like-minded individuals and organizations worldwide to reclaim our personal data and restore trust in the digital realm. It's time to take back control of our digital lives. Freedom, privacy, decentralization, and openness are the values that drive us. We aim to restore trust and control over our personal data and work with people and organizations to make it a reality.
Together, we can build a future where technology serves humanity, not the other way around. A future where we hold the keys to our own data, our own stories, and our own destinies. Let's choose the brighter path.