UC Berkeley EECS professor Alex Dimakis frames open AI development as essential resistance to power held by a few private labs, aligning it with democracy's reliance on skepticism toward centralized authority and broad participation instead.
‘Democracy is built on a profound skepticism of concentrated power. Open science shares this principle. Both are built on the idea that progress and legitimacy emerge from broad, distributed participation rather than concentrated, gated authority.’
It’s an honor to be part of the effort for open AI science.
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Dimakis quotes the view that both democracy and open science gain legitimacy when advances come from many contributors rather than restricted groups, though the exact shape of such participation stays undefined in the statement.
The remarks support calls for a research commons with wide access to compute and models, yet no concrete plans or timelines appear in the posts or linked context.
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‘Democracy is built on a profound skepticism of concentrated power. Open science shares this principle. Both are built on the idea that progress and legitimacy emerge from broad, distributed participation rather than concentrated, gated authority.’
It’s an honor to be part of the effort for AI open science.
http://x.com/i/article/2072403747238723584
AI open science
‘Democracy is built on a profound skepticism of concentrated power. Open science shares this principle. Both are built on the idea that progress and legitimacy emerge from broad, distributed participation rather than concentrated, gated authority.’
It’s an honor to be part of the effort for AI open science.
