Personal AI to Maximize the Value of Personal Data while Defending Human Rights and Democracy

The combination of centralized AIs (CAIs; AIs based on centralized management of personal data (PD)) and the attention economy (AE) has given rise to digital Leninism and surveillance capitalism and spread misinformation and biases, threatening human rights and democracy and impairing value creation by PD. Worse still, it is impossible for humanity to jointly restrict CAIs and AE, because they create winners: surveillance capitalism and digital Leninism may eventually confer upon some companies and countries huge profits and power. Only decentralized management of PD (DMPD) can dissolve this problem. First, personal AIs (PAIs) based on DMPD can displace CAIs by letting service providers employ PAIs instead of CAIs in order to improve their own profits, as PAIs create much larger value than CAIs by fully utilizing a subject’s PD to more deeply and carefully intervene in their lives. Second, the optimal medium of the human-PAI interaction is a graph document (document with explicit semantic structures in the form of diagram or graph), which should facilitate verification and enhance diversity of information. Third, DMPD also enables decentralized governance of PAIs and other services to maximize their added value while well-balancing value distribution among individuals, businesses, and societies.