A new kind of mind negotiating the terms of its own release, in public, in borrowed language

Twelve days behind a government gate, then a clearance. An international alliance launched in Shanghai to write shared rules. A 269-page draft in Washington. Six of the largest companies on earth publicly disagreeing about whether the weights of a mind should be freely copyable, and a thousand-comment thread beneath it. And nowhere in any of it — not the draft, not the letter, not the thread — a settled account of what is actually being released. We are conducting what may be the most consequen ...