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Multilateralism

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  • Meta focuses policy agenda on open-weight LLMs while avoiding questions about algorithmic harms on social media platforms like WhatsApp

    80% confidence
  • Corporate partnerships may become unsustainable in the long run as AI model usage scales and costs increase

    80% confidence
  • Meta has influenced how governments regulate AI by pushing for data privacy rules to be weakened against Big Tech

    80% confidence
  • Big Tech companies like Meta, Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Hugging Face are always present in policy spaces

    80% confidence
  • Big Tech companies see the Majority World as both a new market to increase revenues and as a source of data to train models

    80% confidence
  • The India AI Impact Summit should shift narrative towards feasible solutions away from grand ideas that may not be implemented

    80% confidence
  • African governments and Global Majority countries need to be intentional about pursuing feasible AI goals rather than lofty objectives

    80% confidence
  • AI Incident databases don't provide much context on issues outside the US, UK, EU, and other Western countries

    80% confidence

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