Matt White(@matthew_d_white):Enjoyed speaking with @sophiadew on @MTSlive this afternoon about the misguided legislation being proposed that would ultimately hurt the open source AI ecosystem with major implications for the economy, education, productivity and American leadership. Intelligence will eventually become critical infrastructure and ensuring fair, affordable and reliable intelligence requires that there be choices for consumers and that also requires being open and decentralized.

2026.10.06 01:16

Enjoyed speaking with @sophiadew on @MTSlive this afternoon about the misguided legislation being proposed that would ultimately hurt the open source AI ecosystem with major implications for the economy, education, productivity and American leadership. Intelligence will eventually become critical infrastructure and ensuring fair, affordable and reliable intelligence requires that there be choices for consumers and that also requires being open and decentralized.

MTS@MTSlive

2026.10.06 01:08

Former Linux Foundation Global CTO @matthew_d_white says there is no real kill switch for open-source AI running on your laptop: "If we're looking at something physical, in the worst-case scenario, that's pulling a breaker, cutting power going to a data center that's powering the AI." "In the open world, you can't really have a kill switch for local AI, for AI that's running on your Spark or on your laptop." "The concept is very abstract. I don't see how that can be implemented in software. And the idea that we need a kill switch right now, I'm not really in agreement."