Actual whitepaper is at https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/AI_Opportunity_Agenda.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog

Actual whitepaper is at https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/documents/AI_Opportunity_Agenda.pdf https://storage.googleapis.com/gweb-uniblog-publish-prod/doc... Let me start by saying that Google is very likely separately pushing for regulation to make AI less accessible, and much of its public posturing is also very likely designed to drive up public interest in AI -- so to be clear I'm not saying any of the following in order to create the impression that Google is being philanthropic or has good motives; I do think that Google is overall a bad actor in this space. However, in this very specific example, their poorly named "AI corps" appear to be less about controlling the dissemination of AI and more about retraining workers impacted by AI, investing resources into countries who have less funds to contribute to building their own models, increasing immigration opportunities for researchers, and adopting AI within the government as a tool (which has its own questions, but... different conversation). Again, I'm not saying Google is a good actor. Google should not be trusted on AI regulation. And (opinion me) Google is over-hyping the space to serve its own interests. However, this very specific individual proposal doesn't seem to have the tone or really any of the problems that are being brought up in these comments. Nothing immediately jumped out to me as a proposal to lock down Open Source models or to form some kind of world government. The title is a little unfortunate and doesn't reflect the contents of the paper. Here's the only phrase in the whitepaper that directly mentions a "global AI corps". > Establishing a global AI corps that would include training and support programs to give workers hands-on experience in applying AI to solve new tasks on the job. Basically "world governments should get together and make a plan to encourage everyone to use AI." Is it problematic for Google to be asking the government to encourage adoption of its technologies? Potentially, if like me you believe those technologies are somewhat over-hyped right now (which is not the same as saying they're useless). But it's not a request to take over the world or close down competition. Those requests are going to come in separate papers. :)