Stephen Downes

According to this article, " BigTech wants to use U.S. anti-China rhetoric and U.S's push for AI Supremacy to veto Open-source models that might threaten its own global dominance and cash-cows." Martin Dougiamas opines in Mastodon, "Michael Spencer here encapsulated some of the disgust I feel about #OpenAI distinctly anti-Open monopolistic intentions (which is part of a much larger problem of greed in US corporate culture)." My take is that AI has been for decades a global endeavour, that it should be an open endeavour, and that nobody really 'owns' the basic principles researchers have worked out. And these days, I feel no more sanguine about U.S.-based AI than Chinese AI.