Sovereign AI: Live Demo — Why Your AI Platform Is a Privacy Liability
Every prompt you send to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini travels in plaintext to their servers. They can read it, log it, train on it, and hand it over if subpoenaed. Your account can be suspended at any time. You have no control over pricing, no choice of provider, and no way to verify what happened to your data after you sent it.
For enterprises handling sensitive data such as legal, healthcare, finance, defence, this isn't a theoretical risk. It's a compliance liability.
Join us for a live demonstration of Platformless AI — a decentralised AI protocol where your prompts are encrypted before they leave your device, GPU providers process them without seeing the content, and zero-knowledge proofs give you mathematical certainty that computation ran correctly. No platform. No intermediary. No trust required.
The live demo runs on UK sovereign edge infrastructure provided by StonesThro, in partnership with Cornerstone — the UK's largest tower infrastructure company.
What you'll see:
— How centralised AI platforms actually handle your data and why it matters — What sovereign AI means in plain language and why regulated industries need it — A live multi-agent orchestration running across decentralised GPU hosts, with end-to-end encryption, STARK zero-knowledge proofs, and on-chain settlement — all in real time — How this serves as a drop-in replacement for the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs
Presented by Jules Lai, CTO and founder of Platformless AI. Former blue-chip financial derivatives developer. Sia Foundation grant recipient. Hacken security audit passed.
**Presenting on the AI Engineer Europe 2026 online track (ai.engineer/europe)**
Free entry. Bar available for networking from 6:15pm. Talks begin at 7pm.