# AI Access **Entity class:** Distribution principle **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / science / political economy **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **AI Access** concerns whether competent machine intelligence reaches ordinary people, small organizations, schools, clinics, and communities rather than remaining a frontier capability controlled by a few institutions. ## Mechanism and Consequence Access converts capability into social capacity only when people can afford, direct, trust, and benefit from the systems that reach them. ## Relationships - [[wiki/AI Abundance|AI Abundance]] - [[wiki/Abundance Economics|Abundance Economics]] - [[wiki/Agentic Empowerment|Agentic Empowerment]] - [[wiki/Public Utility AI|Public Utility AI]] ## Source Dossiers - [[research/AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit|AI Is Now So Good They Will Pay You to Quit]] - [[research/Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon|Super Intelligence Week Index of Statements from the White House Luncheon]] - [[research/Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live|Jensen Pushes Back on Doomers Moonshots Live]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "‘Superintelligence’ is a remarkably good way to think about [advanced AI] because many fears concern artificial superintelligence, which should be differentiated from the intelligence helping us day to day. Most of the AIs helping us every day will be the perspiration AIs—the execution AIs. We still need innovation in materials, physics, and other fields, but that is a different set of things. Let us make sure the ninety-nine percent of execution reaches the ninety-nine percent of people and uplifts everyone." > **— Emad Mostaque**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Abundance/Execution AI Must Reach Ninety-Nine Percent of People by Emad Mostaque|Execution AI Must Reach Ninety-Nine Percent of People by Emad Mostaque]] > "The good news is that the Xi–Trump summit and Bernie Sanders’ proposal are completely irrelevant. Once local model weights are available and people can run their own models, the world will move ahead regardless of what any single person does. Humanity has always trundled forward solving problems. We will likely solve cancer in the next two years; that is an unbelievably optimistic thing to aim for. Why would anyone want to slow it down?" > **— Salim Ismail**, *MOONSHOTS Live, September 25, 2026* [[reminders/Abundance/Local AI Models Will Move Humanity Forward Despite Governments by Salim Ismail|Local AI Models Will Move Humanity Forward Despite Governments by Salim Ismail]]