Mozilla makes case for ‘public AI’ to counter market concentration

The nonprofit tech company Mozilla in a new report urges development of a “public AI” ecosystem as a counterweight to a few major technology companies controlling the development and deployment of artificial intelligence and to promote “de facto” safety standards in the absence of formal regulation.

“In AI, unlike the last era of open source software, the steep cost of data and compute blocks most people from participating in AI development. Thus, the status quo poses a major structural risk:...