A.I.'S LABORATORY AIM : CROWN U.S. PRECIS

OPINION : There's no reason the U.S. should refrain from building its own frontier A.I. model.

Artificial Intelligence, funded overwhelmingly by private capital, has careened forward despite immense concerns about the effects it will have on labor, education, science, defence and civic life.

A.I. companies have outpaced public oversight and, at times, successfully lobbied against it.

The central achievements of the industry, the proprietary '' frontier models '' developed by companies like Anthropic, OpenAI and Google, are guarded intellectual properties even as they are incorporated into schools, offices, hospitals, courts, commerce and our everyday devices.

The public did not ask for these A.I. tools and now can hardly opt out of them.

There is no one-size-fits all solution to addressing the impacts that may be coming. But the scale of the concerns requires ambitious responses that serve the public.

The United States can start by building a national A.I. laboratory.

!WOW! thanks Dan Rockmore - he directs Dartmouth College's Neukom Institute for Computational Science and the Dartmouth Kalaniyat program.