Unmasking Big Tech’s AI Policy Playbook: A Warning to Global South Policymakers

Michael L. Bąk diving into the nuance and misdirection packed into the Open Source branding of popular AI models.

While Open Source undoubtedly enables the use of AI by a broader constituency than a bunch of tech bros in silicon valley AI labs, and undoubtedly helps the world to avoid total direct dependency on a handful of extremely powerful companies, it is by far not as simple and clean cut of a win as it may seem, as Michael unpacks as one of the few independent experts with deep, in the field tech policy experience.

As with all dilemmas, there’s no easy answer and no clear heroes and villains in this play - and so it is of the utmost importance to reject simplistic narratives and peek behind them curtain to understand all facets of the story.