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AI Governance Day - From Principles to Implementation

Figure 49: Panelists and moderator during the Center Stage session: To share or not
to share: the dilemma of open source vs. proprietary Large Language Models

– Melinda Claybaugh, Director of Privacy Policy at Meta
– Chris Albon, Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation
– Isabella Hampton, Policy Researcher at the Future of Life Institute.

Moderator:

– Bilel Jamoussi, Deputy to the Director and Chief of Telecommunication Standardization
Policy Department at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

The open source philosophy

Mr. Jim Zemlin, representing the Linux Foundation, emphasized the foundational role of open
source in modern technology.

"Open source has been a fundamental building block for all modern technology
systems." (Jim Zemlin)

He highlighted that 80% to 90% of the code in any modern computing system is open source .
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Mr. Jim Zemlin pointed out that large language models would not exist without open source
tools like PyTorch and other components.

However, Jim Zemlin acknowledged the challenges, particularly market consolidation. He
proposed the need for standards to define what constitutes an open large language model.

1 Linux Foundation and Harvard's Census II Study; Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Report; PhoenixNAP's
Software Composition Analysis

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