Reclaiming the digital commons - Bennett Institute for Public Policy
Recent progress in AI has been dramatic, promising benefits such as productivity gains but also significant disruption. Alan Chan and Herbie Bradley make the case for a National Data Trust to ensure the public can benefit from the corporate use of massive amounts of data to build new AI models.
Recent progress in AI has been dramatic, promising benefits such as productivity gains but also significant disruption. Alan Chan and Herbie Bradley make the case for a National Data Trust to ensure the public can benefit from the corporate use of massive amounts of data to build new AI models. The stated aim of frontier AI labs such as OpenAI is to build “highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work,” possibly within the coming decade . Recent innovations such as ‘generative AI’ (artificial intelligence) or ‘large language models’ (LLMs) underpinning Ope
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