Veteran AI Researcher Pushes Back on Open-Source AI Fearmongering
JeanKossaifi · x · 2026-09-22
Jean Kossaifi, an AI researcher of over a decade, argues modern AI was built on decades of shared science — Python (1991), NumPy (2006), scikit-learn (2010), Jupyter (2014) — contributed by universities, labs, companies and individuals. He contends it's unreasonable to benefit from that openness and then restrict who may build AI under the banner of safety.
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