Openness vs. privacy: NBER panel flags strategic challenges for open models
avicgoldfarb · x · 2026-09-26
Avi Goldfarb's takeaway from the openness panel at NBER's Economics of AI conference: the interaction between openness and privacy. If they are opposites, the use and implementation of open models face strategic challenges. Panelists included Martin Beraja, Martin Chorzempa, Jason Guo, and others.
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