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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">In other words, civil society needs to work on its own AI, and on AI ethics, as a multi stakeholder effort. Are you aware of any such efforts? Or do you plan to launch such an effort?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Governance <governance-bounces@lists.igcaucus.org> on behalf of parminder via Governance <governance@lists.igcaucus.org><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, 19 November 2021 at 3:20 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>governance@lists.igcaucus.org <governance@lists.igcaucus.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Governance] How strongly captured by Big Tech is the field of AI research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Liberation Sans",serif">An excellent and eye opening article in ACM's journal on how strongly captured by Big Tech most AI research is today. There also seem not many alternatives on the horizon.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Liberation Sans",serif"><a href="https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2021/the-steep-cost-of-capture">https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/november-december-2021/the-steep-cost-of-capture</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Liberation Sans",serif">If AI is the future, and everything AI is shaped by the Big Tech, then public interest actors of the world have something that must be addressed urgently..</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Liberation Sans",serif">But many apparently are busy handing even tech governance spaces over to Big Tech, so nothing ever comes in the latter's way.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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