OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China

The founders believed that AI should be developed and distributed for the common good, rather than being controlled by a select few. To achieve this objective, OpenAI is committed to creating AI technologies that are safe and have a broad societal impact. In addition, the company focuses on long-term research to ensure AI remains beneficial in the ... See more

he world needs access to open and democratic AI systems that function as digital public goods.

The challenge for the open movement is already clear: build an alternative to corporate, closed machine learning systems. And to protect the commons from exploitation by these systems.

he global AI race has become a matter of national security for many countries, therefore, state-backed cybercrime groups and mercenaries are aggressively targeting AI vendors, from talented startups to tech giants like Google or OpenAI

‘openness’ often enables systemic exploitation of developers’ and creators’ labor while maintaining the infrastructural and ecosystem dominance of the largest firms. In the context of high levels of corporate concentration and gatekeeping over the ingredients necessary to build AI systems, ‘open’ AI as currently operationalized is primed for corpor... See more