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Within Bounds: Limiting AI's environmental impact

And environmental sustainability can't be an afterthought. The Action Plan acknowledges some energy and water concerns but a more robust framework is needed to limit AI’s environmental impact. greenscreen.network/en/blog/with...

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Joint statement from civil society for the AI Action Summit Signed by over 130+ organizations. If you share our concerns and demands that AI systems be made compatible with our planetary boundaries, a...

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Who will orchestrate this complex plan? We need an agency with capacity to coordinate AI deployment across sectors while ensuring compliance with digital rights. Definitely more than just an “observatory” proposed in the Action Plan.

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The DARE project aims to develop cutting-edge HPC hardware and software based on RISC-V, an open instruction set architecture poised to power exascale and post-exascale supercomputers.

And more resources should go to projects like DARE at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, which develops alternative, open chip architectures for AI training. eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/research-inn...

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Are we entering a “Data Winter”?

Stronger data governance is needed, ensuring access but with sufficient guardrails. The upcoming Data Union Strategy and proposed Data Labs are promising starts, but we need a proper Knowledge Commons to address what Stefaan Verhulst calls a "data winter." sverhulst.medium.com/are-we-enter...

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The urgent need to prevent further decline in opening up data for reuse in the public interest

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A major gap: no commitment to developing a flagship, state-of-the-art, open-source European frontier model. EU-based labs have proven they can build small models. It's time to pool their resources into a model that embodies European values at scale.

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The EU correctly aims to reduce dependency on dominant commercial players with investments in compute. But success will require more than just mobilising funding for ever bigger amounts of GPUs.

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Is joining a race the right goal for a public policy? A stronger vision of purposeful AI deployment is needed if it is to do more than just boost commercial AI development. #publicAI

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From AI Factories to Public Value – Open Future

The European Commission published the AI Continent Action Plan, with the aim of building a European approach that is innovative and competitive in the "race for leadership in AI". Here’s my analysis: ttps://openfuture.eu/blog/from-ai-factories-to-public-value/ #ai #publicAI #europe

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The AI Continent Action Plan needs a stronger vision of purposeful AI deployment if it wants to achieve more than just boost commercial AI development.

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Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social · 03/04/2025

That’s a very interesting idea, and I agree that we need some form of regulation to force AI companies to reciprocate. Yet it’s hard to imagine such code just for Wikimedia - so how broad do you make it? Very quickly you probably have to consider a web-wide tax.

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Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social · 02/04/2025

Still, the paper offers a positive vision, but little clarity on how to get there, if all the big labs are stuck in the transformer / diffusion paradigms. (Upcoming #publicAI paper that Im writing argues that research into alternative paradigms should be key to any public intervention)

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Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social · 02/04/2025

And it’s interesting to see #interoperability (not often discussed in the #AI space) as a key principle for model plurality.

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Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social · 02/04/2025

“Algo decision making systems are “leviathans”, harmful not for their arbitrariness or opacity, but systemacity of decisions" - @christinalu.bsky.social on need for plural #AI model ontologies (sounds technical, but has big consequences for human #commons) www.combinationsmag.com/model-plural...

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Model Plurality

Current research in “plural alignment” concentrates on making AI models amenable to diverse human values. But plurality is not simply a safeguard against bias or an engine of efficiency: it’s a key in...

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Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social · 20/03/2025

Strong piece from @dacemoglumit.bsky.social on the AI opportunity - public interest AI will be built only if societies don't leave it just to the developers and engineers, and also - EU needs to build alternatives to the "Silicon Valley model" www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

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Will We Squander the AI Opportunity? | by Daron Acemoglu - Project Syndicate

Daron Acemoglu worries that the technology is on track to disempower, rather than complement, most of humanity.

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Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social · 19/03/2025

Against this backdrop, @wikipedia.org stands out as a unique, global platform and civic initiative. High time to think of it as much more than an encyclopedia: a bulwark for XXI century, knowledge-based, democratic order. A collective good in a world of private tech empires.

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Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social · 19/03/2025

Good op-ed in NYT about the tech billionaries and companies they own, and how antithetical to democracy they are. good quotes from @himself.bsky.social who does some of the best thinking on this. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/o...

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Opinion | It May Not Be Brainwashing, but It’s Not Democracy, Either (Gift Article)

How the federal government became “an outdated software system that must be replaced.”

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Alek Tarkowski @alek.eurosky.social · 19/03/2025

A proposal for how the UK National Data Library could function (from Feb, I'm catching up on #publicAI examples). Sounds a lot like #publicdatacommons. And a good example of a data-first pathway to more public AI (and other tech policy goals) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/tbi-ndl

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Here's a pitch for what the National Data Library should actually be

Do you want to be a National Data Librarian?

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That's true, I tend to focus on the copyright-adjacent preference signalling space. And the BlueSky proposal is indeed not based on (c). But I'm not aware of alternatives that offer strong foundations for enforcement. Labour disputes get mentioned, but they are not widely applicable.

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the case is interesting because it's NOT #AI use. Seems that #genAI scraping has turned the issue of reuse from a possibility to a (hard) reality for some #glam and #oa institutions

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One more example of what increasingly looks like a trend: various #open collections shift to a "yes, but" posture. #aicommons

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National Library cracks down on public data access

David Braue writes about the National Library of Australia, which began Terms of Use, limiting open access to its resources. Braue describes the context as "voracious genAI training algorithms overstay open government’s welcome". ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...

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Archives are throttling access to data that was supposed to be open.

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I think that this extrapolates beyond digital cash, to other forms of #publicdigitalinfrastructure. Leading to the question: as we debate #digitalcommons, do we have clarity on how analog, physical, IRL solutions fit into the picture?

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As cyberwarfare threat looms, cashless Nordic nations go back to banknotes | Miranda Bryant

This Guardian piece looks at how Nordic countries, once at the forefront of digital payments, now see cash as a crucial mechanism for resilience. Social campaigns are encouraging people to pay with cash, at least once in a while. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Nordic countries were early adopters of digital payments. Now, electronic banking is seen as a potential threat to national security

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Enforcement is generally not something that you worry about when dealing with sharing frameworks. (I’m assuming that BlueSky aims to make sharing sustainable through finetuning)

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And more generally, enforcement is the Achilles heel of most proposals for balanced control/sharing. Not just this one, but also RAIL licenses, open source AI standards, etc. They are all meant to be community norms to which actors adhere in good faith.

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In the US context, such advocacy is almost impossible to imagine, because it would suggest that fair use does not apply. It’s hard for me to imagine this changing until courts reach a decision.

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What DeepSeek? Big Tech Keeps Its A.I. Building Boom Alive.

I've been working on a white paper on #publicAI policies and learned in the process that sound proposals are imposible without deep technical dive into the #AI stack. THis is a great NYT explainer on GPUs, data centers, energy and water use for AI. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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An apparent breakthrough in efficiency from the Chinese start-up did not make tech’s biggest companies question their extravagant spending on new data centers.

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AI is meant to be destroying knowledge jobs, but at the moment, in the #US, it’s the state that’s destroying PhD jobs through funding cuts. The key question is then, how do the two trends intertwine? (And I guess it’s a #publicAI question) www.msn.com/en-ca/money/...

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And #dma2 banner should be picked up by everyone who supports #dpi #eurostack proposals

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Success failure of this initiative is an interesting litmus test of how EU navigates its digital sovereignty vs broader geopolitical stakes

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I know that comparisons like this are hard but since Hungary is now often brought up, I think it’s worth looking at Poland’s “post-patrimonic” moment

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