Fostering a Federated AI Commons ecosystem
- Author: codingrights.org
- Full Title: Fostering a Federated AI Commons ecosystem
- Category: articles
- Document Tags: #tech
- URL: https://codingrights.org/docs/Federated_AI_Commons_ecosystem_T20Policybriefing.pdf
Highlights
- The development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is currently spearheaded by a handful of Big Tech firms based in the global minority, racing to outpace each other and turbocharging surveillance capitalism, digital colonialism, and a monoculture of thought. As a result, most AI systems are being developed and deployed with a "one-model-for-everything" approach that increases inequities, automates oppression, and exacerbates the climate catastrophe. (View Highlight)
- Being the only organizations to have large amounts of data along with the infrastructure to “mine” it, makes Big Tech companies the sole proprietors of key assets needed for training machine learning (ML) models underlying current AI systems. This reliance on large, uncurated datasets has resulted in models that have racist, ableist, sexist, and otherwise biased outputs,3 and in automated inequality, poverty, xenophobia and the full spectrum of violence towards bodies and territories of historically marginalized communities. (View Highlight)
- Consensual Data: From non-consensual data extraction to fully consensual, community-controlled, data co-ops and public data trusts; ● Fit for Purpose Models: From monoculture models (one-for-everything) to small, specific, and fit-for-purpose models; ● Dignified Data Work: From exploitative ghost work to dignified, appropriately compensated data worker cooperatives; (View Highlight)
- Equitable Economic Impact: From extreme concentration in a tiny number of global minority Big Tech firms to a flourishing ecosystem of small, local, global majority-based firms, cooperatives, public entities, and initiatives; ● Accountable Social Impact: From automated inequality to harm reduction and accountability; ● Ecological Evolution: From exploding resource consumption and ecological damage, to a smaller footprint and increased sensitivity to our relationship with the earth and its inhabitants. (View Highlight)