Mozilla CTO Raffi Krikorian Argues AI Policy Should Focus on Ownership vs. Renting
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Summary
Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla, argues that the central debate in AI policy should shift from 'open versus closed' to 'owning versus renting' — whether AI systems are something users control or something they lease from a handful of large corporations. Drawing on his experience at Twitter, Uber, and the DNC, Krikorian advocates for focusing on the harness and protocol layers of AI to ensure user agency and decentralized control.
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We need to focus more on the harness and protocol layers of AI to ensure user agency and decentralized control.
A technologist by background with stops at Twitter, Uber, and the Democratic National Committee, he writes about this question in his newsletter, Owners Not Renters.
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