Open Source as Political Theology: Carl Schmitt and the Politics of Decentralization w/ Michael Millerman

​Join us as we kickstart the Open Source AI Summit with philosopher Michael Millerman. Please note, this is a public event, but the Open Source AI Summit is application-based. You can apply here if you're interested: https://opensourceaisummit.org/#get-involved

​Open-source AI is often presented as an answer to concentrated
technological power: open models disperse control, widen access, and resist monopoly. But does decentralization escape politics, or does it reorganize political power in a new form?

In this salon, political philosopher Michael Millerman will lead a
close reading of selected passages from Carl Schmitt’s “The Age of Neutralizations and Depoliticizations.” Schmitt argued that modern societies repeatedly seek a neutral domain—first theology, then metaphysics, morality, economics, and finally technology—where conflict might be resolved through ostensibly objective means. We will use that argument to examine the politics of open-source AI: whether openness is genuinely neutral, what forms of authority and conflict remain, and how the open/closed-source divide may be shaping a new political theology of technology.

No prior familiarity with Schmitt or political philosophy is required.

​About Michael Millerman

​Michael Millerman is a philosopher, writer, and educator specializing in political philosophy. Through the Millerman School and his widely followed lectures, he has become a leading voice bringing thinkers like Strauss, Schmitt, and Heidegger to a new audience in technology and beyond.