Call for Funded Academic Visitors at Oxford and Stanford

[Jialin Yu]

Dear all, 

Today we’re launching the Institute for Decentralized AI (IDAI), a project supported by the Cosmos Institute Our mission: build the protocols, standards, and tooling that make decentralized AI work in the real world.

By “decentralized AI” we mean AI where compute, data, governance, control, and outcomes are distributed across many parties. No single switch or owner: instead, systems that are composed, federated, and interoperable.

This approach is the fastest path to AI commons:
– unlocks collaboration without surrendering control
– reduces single-point failures & lock-in
– enables safer, auditable agent networks

Our work combines research + infrastructure: protocols and standards, distributed oversight systems, tooling and reference implementations, and field building for modern decentralized AI. Current research is focused on decentralized oversight of agent networks: trust protocols in agent networks/economies; global, federated anomaly detection; formalizing safety in agent networks; and human-friendly oversight tools for distributed AI.

As a first step, we’re announcing 5 fully funded academic visitor slots at Oxford (4) and Stanford (1) for researchers working on agent security, distributed anomaly detection, and decentralized safety.
https://lnkd.in/dwdvZnTK

If you’d like to collaborate, we’re eager to work with labs, companies, standards bodies, and researchers who bring strong research taste + builder energy, openness to standards, and interest in rigorous evaluation.

→ For collaborations: collabo...@decentralized-ai.org
→ Or DM @idai_institute on X

Follow along: @idai_institute • decentralized-ai.org • github.com/idai-institute.

A project of the Cosmos Institute. Funded by a grant from the AI Safety Fund. RTs appreciated.

Jialin Yu,

On behalf of IDAI