National AI Action plan should expand open-source offerings, respondents say

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on Friday published over 10,000 comments that it received in response to its request for information on the development of a new national AI Action Plan.

Part of President Donald Trump’s executive order on AI, the RFI asked for input on elements that the forthcoming AI Action Plan should include, particularly the ways it which it can help remove barriers to American leadership in AI technology development and deployment.

A number of influential entities across the private, advocacy and academic sectors said that enabling open-source software regimes is key to that mission.

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