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Comment by Alek Tarkowski
Open Future director; digital policy
There is a need to develop alternatives that are publicly funded, driven by a public-interest mission, and overseen by democratically elected institutions.
By proposing a mission to build a “CERN for AI”, the LAION researchers argue that a strong role for the public sector is needed to ensure public interest in this field. The petition argues for a democratization of AI technologies in a double sense: 1) through democratic oversight of their development, and 2) the democratization of the technology itself through its open sourcing.
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(2024)
6mo ago
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Verified via web search. The Open Future blog post "LAION petitions for a European public AI mission" by Alek Tarkowski (Director of Strategy at Open Future) is confirmed as the source. The search results directly quote both passages verbatim. The vote "for" on "Grant member states majority governance control in the CERN for AI" aligns with the quote's emphasis on public funding, public-interest mission, and democratic oversight. Source URL returned 403 to WebFetch but search excerpts match the content.
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Hector Perez Arenas
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· 4d ago
replying to Alek Tarkowski