The group includes Joelle Pineau, chief AI officer at Cohere; Doina Precup, a McGill University professor and research lead at Google DeepMind’s Montreal office; and Yoshua Bengio, co-founder of LawZero. As AI’s impact grows “at an unprecedented pace,” they wrote, “infrastructure supporting open scientific exchange and debate in AI” needs sufficient funding to run. (The Logic)

Talking point: The non-profit OpenReview Foundation runs a software platform that the organizers of AI’s major academic conferences like NeurIPS and ICLR use to manage the screening of scientific papers. Many significant AI breakthroughs first appeared in presentations and on posters at those events; scientists and companies then recycle and build on top of them. Researchers regularly post their papers first on arXiv, another open-source site. But the group supporting OpenReview says it handles a lot more volume with fewer staff, and they’re calling for donations from firms “that benefit enormously from AI.” Shoring up review processes has become more urgent as AI-generated science and slop floods the field.