michel on ai commons ness
michel bauwens on ai commons ness
via tweet [https://x.com/mbauwens/status/2037102507898663047?s=20]:
I joined a new AI Commos think thank:
https://clea.research.vub.be/aic
@emetlalune writes:
On Monday, twelve impressive minds agreed to join me on an adventure, and I’m deeply grateful. vasilis kostakis
Dear Andrzej Rys, Cristian Axenie, Gen Zendahl, Joana Santos, Steve Coy, Scott David, Vasilis Kostakis, Weaver D.R. Weinbaum, Michel Bauwens, Dr. Mihaela Ulieru, Fatima Roumate (PhD), Young Yoon:
vasilis kostakis.. michel bauwens..
to my defence for bothering you with yet another committee in your busy lives, I have only this:
(I believe) it’s extremely important and urgent.
The AI Commons (AIC) Framework is an open standard for governing how AI systems are deployed:
– what environmental impacts are factored in,
– who participates in the gains,
has to be all for the dance to dance
– who has access,
has to be all for the dance to dance
– who gets paid for inputs and contributions,
– what is always transparent,
– and who decides on what really matters.
has to be all for the dance to dance.. but to me.. need to facil curiosity over decision making (aka: itch-in-the-soul).. because the finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
Think a “Creative Commons” formula of shaping the industry standards via legal templates, but for the conditions under which AI enters the world. Our working group is here to turn this into a complete, usable set of contractual instruments.
to me.. if ‘legal template’ ness.. if ‘contractual instrument’ ness.. not legit common\ing (aka: legit free people)
findings from on the ground ness:
1\ undisturbed ecosystem (common\ing) can happen
2\ if we create a way to facil the seeming chaos of 8b legit free people
the thing we’ve not yet tried/seen: the unconditional part of left to own devices ness
[‘in an undisturbed ecosystem ..the individual left to its own devices.. serves the whole’ –dana meadows]
there’s a legit use of tech (nonjudgmental exponential labeling) to facil the seeming chaos of a global detox leap/dance.. for (blank)’s sake..
ie: whatever for a year.. a legit sabbatical ish transition
otherwise we’ll keep perpetuating the same song.. the whac-a-mole-ing ness of sea world.. of not-us ness.. of part\ial ness.. perpetuating survival triage.. for (blank)’s sake..
Bruno Latour wrote that “technology is society made durable.” If that is so, then *the deployment conditions under which AI systems are contracted into use are quite literally the terms on which the next chapter of society gets written. These templates should have been available before the first big tech players sat down at their negotiation tables, where **choices such as “what does open mean” or ***“what does for the benefit of humanity mean” were getting settled with real money behind them – which is where the answers acquire impact. A few years have passed since then, and some of those settlements have already shaped many real-life outcomes.
*conditions – need 1st/most: means (nonjudgmental expo labeling) to undo hierarchical listening – so we can hear what’s already on each heart as global detox in order to org around legit needs
**again.. he finite set of choices of decision making is unmooring us.. keeping us from us..
**and again.. has to be all for the dance to dance
mufleh humanity law: we have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity– Luma Mufleh
But the game is on. So here we go.
In six months, we will have the AIC Framework ready for any tech project to simply take and use, free of charge and for good.
We will be publishing partial building blocks on the way, stay tuned.
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be you. 