Min Chen, Kai Wu, Prajal Pradhan, Cameron Allen, Stefano Nativi, Klaus Hubacek, Alexey Voinov, Felix Creutzig, Tatiana Filatova, Niklas Boers, Michael E. Meadows, Peilong Ma, Frank Biermann, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, John Ludden, Maria Paradiso, Michael Batty, Huadong Guo, Min Cao, Peng Hou, Guonian Lü
While the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution is advancing rapidly, the open-source paradigm offers key pathways and potential risks for accelerating progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and beyond. This comment introduces four governance actions that consider how sustainability, evaluation, safety, and cooperation can be integrated into the transformation of open-source AI, thereby reducing uncertainties and challenges posed by open-source AI for sustainable global prosperity. This comment introduces four governance actions that consider how sustainability, evaluation, safety, and cooperation can be integrated into the transformation of open-source AI, thereby reducing uncertainties and challenges posed by open-source AI for sustainable global prosperity.