🔓 We are telling #G7 leader that the #AI infrastructure must be #open.
✊🏾 Find out more on our blog about the actions recommended for the #T7Italy Summit by @okfn, @openfuture, Digital Public Goods Alliance, CEP and MicroSave:
André Simonazzi's (@gov) clear public communication of what is and, above all, what is not, was of great value for the work of the #OpenData community in 2020+. As it has been for all those who have built on this work.
I enjoyed reading @mweinberg 's comments to the NTIA on #AI and #openness. Mike's argument is simple: in a space as complex and emergent as AI, we cannot consider free / open licenses a good proxy for openness.
Particularly valuable is Mike's analysis of how openness played out in the field of #openhardware, a good analogous setting for conversations about AI.
Open Knowledge Foundation looking for "a Senior Developer with at least 10 years experience to work with us to bring Open Data Editor (ODE) to the first stable and public release." - https://okfn.org/en/jobs/senior-developer/ Compensation: $300 - $400 per day, depending on experience #openness
🇩🇪 Als Teil einer wissenschaftlichen Gemeinschaft, die sich für #Openness einsetzt, haben wir beschlossen, unser Engagement auf X (ehemals Twitter) mit dem Jahresende einzustellen. Der Account bleibt, aber wir werden dort nicht mehr posten & interagieren.
Gern tauschen wir uns hier auf Mastodon und auf LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/helmholtz-open-science-office/ mit euch aus.
🇬🇧 As part of a scientific community committed to #openness, we have decided to discontinue our engagement on the social media platform X (formerly Twitter) by the end of this year. The account will remain, but we will no longer post or interact there. We are happy to exchange ideas with you here on Mastodon and on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/helmholtz-open-science-office/
The crybabies who freak out about The Communist Manifesto appearing on university curriculum clearly never read it - chapter one is basically a long hymn to capitalism's flexibility and inventiveness, its ability to change form and adapt itself to everything the world throws at it and come out on top:
Openwashing is the trick that large "AI" companies use to evade regulation and neutralizing critics, by casting themselves as forces of ethical capitalism, committed to the virtue of #openness. No one should be surprised to learn that the products of the "open" wing of an industry whose products are neither "artificial," nor "intelligent," are also not "open." Every word AI huxters say is a lie; including "and," and "the."
"It’s incredibly naïve to think that #openness automatically makes things better when you have companies totally willing to exploit that openness to dominate a market."
"When #engineers frame their work as apolitical or “purely” technical, they are not being naïve. Some may genuinely believe that #technology can be fully neutral, but many rhetorically employ a strategic naivety, because they know it allows the #IETF to continue to exist, and their employers to continue to benefit from its decisions about internet standards.
This cultural imperative to downplay or sideline politics in" #tech decisions creates a steep hurdle for society.
⸺ https://www.criticalinfralab.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LoudMen-CorinneCath-CriticalInfraLab.pdf
We’re bringing the official @creativecommons Mastodon account alive! If you are interested in #openness in human practices and creativity, follow us there to hear what's happening in our community and work. See you at the Global Summit in Mexico City in Oct?