Global research agenda required under Biden EO promotes open-sourcing AI models

To create inclusive artificial intelligence infrastructure that would facilitate sustainable development goals and equity in low- and middle-income countries as the technology develops, the U.S. State Department and four partner agencies said policymakers should support the proliferation of open AI systems.

“Fully open and reproducible AI models – where associated code, training data, and model weights are all made public -- allow a wide set of researchers to approach otherwise impossible or prohibitively expensive research questions, such as questions related...