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​Most AI today is rented intelligence. Your ideas, workflows, and data are fed into centralized systems that learn from that input—and keep the value. In this keynote, webAI Founder and CEO David Stout explains how this approach is fundamentally flawed. As AI becomes the operating system of modern life, the real question isn’t how powerful the models are. It’s who owns the intelligence they produce.

​Stout outlines a different future where intelligence is personal, contextual, and owned by the people and organizations that generate it. Instead of a single model in the cloud, the next era of AI will be a civilization of models: networks of specialized systems working together to solve problems no single model ever could.