The Smart Economy Podcast · 2026-03-26 · 1h 3m
In this episode of The Smart Economy Podcast, host Dylan Grabowski sits down with David Johnston, OSS code maintainer at Morpheus, a peer-to-peer network designed to power decentralized smart agents and open access to AI infrastructure. Johnston shares his journey from early internet startups and energy ventures into Bitcoin and eventually decentralized AI infrastructure, and what he believes is the next major technological shift: personal AI agents that individuals own and control. What you’ll learn: Why owning your own AI agent may become as important as owning your smartphone How decentralized AI infrastructure could challenge Big Tech’s control of AI Why Johnston believes “everything that can be decentralized will be decentralized” How crypto networks may enable open access to AI models and computation Why AI agents may soon perform most on-chain transactions How early Bitcoin lessons shaped Johnston’s thinking about AI ownership Why personal AI agents could dramatically change productivity and work David Johnston is the OSS code maintainer at Morpheus, a decentralized network focused on enabling open-source AI agents.
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