Open source is an essential building block for a sane digital society that would resemble our professed values. AI is an important but ultimately small part of

Open source is an essential building block for a sane digital society that would resemble our professed values. AI is an important but ultimately small part of this overall transformation. Let me remind everybody that bitcoin, aiming to disrupt the very fundamentals of economic life, is also open source. The evolutionary process of embedding open source capabilities at societal scale is far from automatic or manifestly benign (see above crypto reference). A lot of technology, institutions, behaviors still need to be imagined, developed, tested and evangelized. That is the good, roll back your sleeves challenge for current and future generations of digital "social" engineers. I struggle to see any alternative universe that is not dystopic. Genuinely interested if people have articulated "proprietary" visions that are intellectually honest as to their incentives and morally aligned with ideas of individual agency and freedom and democratic controls.