The Shared Prosperity Internet

TL;DR

The Shared Prosperity Internet (SPI) is a novel network architecture designed to make AI benefits widely accessible by emphasizing trustworthiness, sustainability, and sovereignty through innovative technical pillars.

Contribution

This paper introduces the SPI architecture grounded in physical constraints, with new principles like goal-oriented communication and anticipatory decision-making.

Findings

Defines measurable outcomes for SPI including latency, energy, and safety metrics.

Maps physical constraints to three core design principles and technical pillars.

Grounds SPI in societal use cases like remote teaching and elder care.

Abstract

The Shared Prosperity Internet (SPI) is a network-computing architecture that makes the benefits of automation and Artificial Intelligence (AI) broadly accessible to the society. To ground its design, this paper maps the physical constraints of Shannon, Landauer, Turing, and Einstein to three design principles: trustworthiness, sustainability, and technological sovereignty, and maps them into three technical pillars: i) post-Shannon, goal-oriented communication that transmits only what the task requires; ii) anticipatory decision-making ("negative latency") with confidence-bounded pre-action and correction; and iii) beyond-digital computing that selects energy-optimal substrates under deadline and computability constraints. The SPI is grounded in three societal use cases: remote teaching for pupils, remote teaching of robots and cyber-physical systems, and elder care. Furthermore, this paper defines measurable outcomes for an SPI, including latency decomposition, bits per event, energy and CO2 per task, safety and privacy indicators, and robustness.