Will your personal AI always live in the cloud, or will you someday own and operate a local, portable AI "instance" - free from centralized platforms? This article contrasts cloud-based and local AI, explaining their implications for data privacy, control, resilience, and society. It dissects trade-offs: centralisation boosts scale, but also creates vendor lock-in and surveillance risk; local models promise true user sovereignty but bring new security and update burdens. Practical guidance and speculative futures help readers envision how AI deployment choices will shape their autonomy in daily life. Tsuka’s stance: the closer you move intelligence to the user, the greater their responsibility - and freedom - to own its outcomes.
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