AI Nodes: Compute, Community, and Funding for Decentralized AI | Allison Duettmann
Foresight Institute RadioShow Notes
This recording is from Vision Weekend Puerto Rico 2026, hosted by the Foresight Institute in February 2026. View the recording of this talk on our Youtube.
Allison Duettmann is the President and CEO of the Foresight Institute. In this talk, she presents the Foresight AI Nodes program: a distributed network of locally-based research groups working on AI for science and safety. She covers how the program is structured, the rationale for a decentralized approach, and what the early nodes have been working on.
Vision Weekend, where this talk was recorded, is where we gather leading builders, thinkers, and funders in AI, bio, nano, neuro, and space to celebrate technological progress and explore how to advance it for the betterment of life. If you want to join a future Vision Weekend live, upcoming events are listed at foresight.org and in our Luma calendar.
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