AI and the Enclosure of the Scientific Commons
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A paper examines how artificial intelligence development is concentrating scientific knowledge and resources within proprietary systems, limiting open access to research infrastructure and data that traditionally characterized scientific inquiry.
Why it mattersAs AI capabilities concentrate in private hands, researchers outside well-funded organizations face increasing barriers to accessing training data, compute resources, and model weights needed to conduct independent research and verify published claims.
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