Urgent Letter - Protect Open Source Ai (OSAI)

For the Data Patrimony of the People of Earth

An important letter has been re-circulated today by Martin Casado of a16z.com.

https://twitter.com/martin_casado/status/1720517026538778657

From November 2023, the letter advocates for open source (ability) in the development of Ai.

Signed by :

This is a key statement.

Because restriction of Ai development extends well beyond the technology world.

Ai, the “bloodstream of data,” touches or will touch upon every piece of human data the world has produced, or will produce. This is because it is embedded and growing within and adjacent to (and accessing) all available data.

We are talking, after all, about the entire data history of mankind, present data contents, and future data creations.

We are talking about re-generations of thought, philosophy, prose, art, music and more.

We are talking about business data, and sensitive data, and legal data.

We are talking about the ability of a person to decide and to create, utilizing Ai technologies, what had never been previously possible before; valuable companies, valuable products.

We are talking about technical reform of prior legacy processes in professions, in communications, in government and media and art.

These data, and these opportunities, rightly belong to all and each of the people of humankind -- not to the "leaders."

For this reason alone, Ai development should remain open and open source.

To do otherwise would be the gravest mistake in the history of human data. A mandatory mega digital Guttenberg, only for selected private use.

The technical wrinkles can be mediated in a variety of ways (as your letter makes plain) and thus represents what can only be seen as a red herring.