"A.I. is built on our collective intelligence: our books, songs, artwork, journalism, computer code, scientific research, videos, conversations, images and ideas spanning generations. … tech oligarchs have fed this knowledge into their A.I. models without permission, without acknowledgment, without

"A.I. is built on our collective intelligence: our books, songs, artwork, journalism, computer code, scientific research, videos, conversations, images and ideas spanning generations. … tech oligarchs have fed this knowledge into their A.I. models without permission, without acknowledgment, without

If collective knowledge justifies public ownership of AI companies, then by the same reasoning it could justify public claims on nearly everything. AI is built on humanity's collective knowledge. But so is everything else. Media companies, businesses, homes, and almost every modern product or serv