Meta’s chief AI scientist says all countries should contribute data to a shared open-source AI model

AI has surged to the top of the diplomatic agenda in the past couple of years.

And one of the leading topics of discussion among researchers, tech executives, and policymakers is how open-source models — which are free for anyone to use and modify — should be governed.

At the AI Action Summit in Paris earlier this year, Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, said he’d like to see a world in which “we’ll train our open-source platforms in a distributed fashion…