THE CURRENT MODEL
Intelligence has been centralised.
Most modern AI products rely on remote infrastructure. A person writes a prompt, uploads a document or shares a piece of code; the information is transferred to a provider, processed on external hardware and returned as an answer. The experience is immediate, so the journey is easy to forget.
But privacy depends on that journey. Once information leaves the device, users have to trust policies, security systems, retention practices and infrastructure they cannot directly inspect or control.
