Commons-Governed Artificial Intelligence: A Taxonomy of Collective Governance (opens in new tab)

The governance of artificial intelligence is overwhelmingly theorized through two institutional frames. In the market frame, the data, models, and compute that constitute the AI stack are private goods exchanged under property and contract; in the state frame, a regulator imposes rules from above. A third possibility, the collective and self-organized stewardship of AI-relevant resources by the communities that produce and depend on them, remain...