Publication: The Economist

Purists are pushing back against Meta’s efforts to set its own standard on the definition of open-source AI. Stefano Maffulli, head of the OSI, says Mr Zuckerberg “is really bullying the industry to follow his lead”.

Few inventions in history have been as important for human civilisation and as poorly understood as the internet. It developed not as a centrally planned system, but as a patchwork of devices and networks connected by makeshift interfaces. Decentralisation makes it possible to run such a complex system. But every so often comes a chilling reminder that the whole edifice is uncomfortably precarious.