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Decentralized Acceleration, AI Alignment, and the Future of the Human Network

Powering Human Coordination Networks with Keys, Identity, and Wallets

The race to build and fund the future is happening now—but who will shape it? With AI alignment at a crossroads, identity and reputation systems are becoming critical—who gets to define "alignment," and how do we ensure these systems serve people, not control them?

human.tech provides humanistic infrastructure to empower humans with immutable natural rights. Powering this is the Human Network, a decentralized identity and wallet layer designed for capital distribution, crowdfunding, and peer-to-peer payments. But we need more than technology; we need a movement.

As technology becomes increasingly embedded in our lives, the question of alignment with human values becomes more urgent. How do we ensure that the systems we build empower individuals rather than control them? How can we design digital infrastructures that respect privacy, autonomy, and dignity while fostering collaboration and collective intelligence?

This interactive workshop will explore the principles behind Human-Aligned Technology, focusing on self-sovereign identity, digital personhood, and decentralized governance. Participants will engage with The Covenant, a framework that envisions a future where human agency remains at the center of technological evolution, produced by human.tech. Through structured discussions, creative exercises, and collaborative ideation, attendees will contribute to shaping the future of ethical, human-centric technology.

Learn to secure crucial public data on decentralized storage networks with practical demos and real-world applications. Perfect for archivists and preservationists!

What might beneficial multipolar AI futures look like? Which factors shape them? How can we build for them? We’ll discuss potential developmental paths for AI, how open source, decentralized training, the agent economy, and offense defense dynamics shape them, and how we can prepare civilization to nudge AI trajectories toward Paretotopian futures.

Panelists include:
Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute
Mark S. Miller, Agoric
Max Langenkamp, SecureDNA
Abhinav Singh, Normalyze
*Christine Peterson, Foresight Institute

As AGI timelines shorten, many projections assume a centralized AI future. This workshop examines whether beneficial multipolar AI scenarios are feasible and how they might emerge. Participants will explore key geopolitical, technological, and economic factors shaping AI’s trajectory, aiming to identify actionable strategies for a decentralized AI landscape.

EY has been building and developing blockchain privacy technology for nearly a decade. This is a conversation about the ins and outs of sustaining a public-service oriented development and how we built the justify the business case.

This talk will discuss the high level opportunities of how we can collectively do data science together, as well as practical guidance on how to get started. We will also share our learnings doing this work for the most recent Optimism retro funding round.

DWeb leader Wendy Hanamura goes deep with Ethereum Foundation's new president, Aya Miyaguchi, exploring the values, decisions, challenges, and future direction of the Ethereum community.

We're not just human anymore - we're cyborgs, extended through our devices into digital spaces. But here's the thing: our past selves figured out most of what we need to know about managing commons and collective resources long ago. From indicator plants that show us when soil is healthy to BBS systems that created vibrant online communities, our past is full of elegant solutions we keep reinventing. Sometimes the best way forward is to time travel backward, whether that's through historical archives or just turning off our phones to remember what slower, calmer technology feels like. In this talk, we'll explore how cybernetic systems and Calm Tech - like physical bulletin boards and community gatherings - might be exactly what we need to fund and sustain our digital commons. Let's learn from collective cultures and our own past to integrate alongside the future and build something that actually works for cyborgs like us.

Toby Shorin will lead participants through a sensemaking workshop, using tools and frameworks from Other Internet's body of work, to develop an orientation toward when we are, what's worth working on, and crypto's relationship to today's existential themes.

TBC

Less than 1% of eukaryotic species have been mapped—meaning we risk losing not only species but also centuries of evolutionary intelligence before we even understand their full significance.

Wise Ancestors is pioneering a new model of conservation that bridges genomic sequencing, Indigenous knowledge, and decentralized collaboration.

The next wave of AI progress depends on unlocking high-quality private data in a way that benefits everyone. While public internet data has been largely exhausted as a training source, a massive untapped resource exists in our collective personal data.

Anna Kazlauskas, OpenDataLabs CEO, and founder of Vana, will demonstrate how communities can pool their data through DataDAOs to create valuable training datasets that advance AI while ensuring privacy and shared benefits. Collaborative data infrastructure enables better AI that serves the public good.

Treekipedia is an AI-powered, community-driven tree intelligence commons, designed to aggregate, structure, and democratize global tree knowledge. By leveraging AI agents, peer-reviewed contributions, and an ontology-driven knowledge graph, Treekipedia transforms fragmented ecological data into an open, machine-readable resource for conservationists, researchers, and practitioners. The platform enables better species selection for reforestation, integrates Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with scientific insights, and supports biodiveirsty and climate resilience efforts by providing actionable, continuously evolving tree data. Treekipedia is more than a database—it is a living knowledge ecosystem, bridging the gap between research, technology, and global reforestation initiatives.