"Companies’ input in shaping the future of AI is essential, but they cannot retain the power they have gained to frame research on how their systems impact society or on how we evaluate the effect morally," writes BKC Director Yochai Benkler in Nature. "Governments and publicly accountable entities must support independent research, and insist that industry shares enough data for it to be kept accountable...
"Organizations working to ensure that AI is fair and beneficial must be publicly funded, subject to peer review and transparent to civil society. And society must demand increased public investment in independent research rather than hoping that industry funding will fill the gap without corrupting the process."