Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!
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Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!
Many users endorse open source AI as essential to counter risks from power concentrated in a few labs, highlighting benefits like collective ownership, provenance, and local data control.
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Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!

@ClementDelangue I hate to tell you but there are even bigger risks than someone having a better AI model than you

@Plinz Most of the other risks are, in my view, either much less likely, or made more likely and more damaging by extreme concentration of power, capabilities and wealth

@ClementDelangue "The only safe models are the ones that make us tons of money and put everyone else out of work" is quite the message to rally behind...
This is not one that we can let go quietly.

@ClementDelangue Yep

@ClementDelangue Yes.

@ClementDelangue open source should win
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Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!

@ClementDelangue Will you sign on to the AI Pledge for Humanity in support of an AI dividend?
http://Aipledgeforhumanity.org

@Plinz @ClementDelangue Serious question, what are the bigger you are talking about?
In my mind I have planetary / cosmic level threats, this is an addition to what power hungry / mentally unstable humans might do
What else am I missing?

@ClementDelangue @jeremyphoward I actually think the biggest hurdle for open-model development is the amount of compute. If we can bring down model training cost to an affordable range, open-models can easily out-perform proprietary models.

@ClementDelangue let's get the boys together and finally train that 10T we have always been talking about

@carlkolon @ClementDelangue What makes you feel AI causes extinction. What is the realistic basis for this? Other than fiction?
Meanwhile extreme concentration of power is already happening, and happened with Google’s monopoly on search.

@ClementDelangue That’s definitely a big risk but I don’t think it’s the biggest. What about extinction?

@ClementDelangue How about organizing a co-op to fund training for open models? Just complaining won't get us anywhere. And regulating to slow it down is stupid because nobody will regulate the Chinese, it will just be economic suicide.

@ClementDelangue the conviction is right but "open source" has become the thing everyone agrees on while disagreeing about everything underneath it - model weights without compute access, data provenance, or governance is a flag without a country

@ClementDelangue Couldn't agree more. AI is built on the collective wisdom of humanity over millennia—it belongs to all of us. Any move to privatize AI is purely selfish and narrow-minded, and it’s a direct threat to social order and fairness.

I’d love to see Hugging Face add a clause requiring that any use of its datasets as well as any dataset uploaded to its platform must be subject to a mandatory reciprocal open research license, regardless of the company involved. This is probably the only real way to stop these players from undermining open research and the community.

@ClementDelangue The tech is exciting. The concentration of power around it is the part that keeps me thinking🤔

@ClementDelangue the polymarket board showing anthropic at 91% would like a word
They endorsed a warning originally published by Clement Delangue.
Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!