AI's Data Access Question

AI is reopening a core question from the development of the web: how to preserve the freedom to learn while giving publishers meaningful control over how their works are made available. In this episode, Matt Perault is joined by Derek Slater, cofounder of Proteus Strategies and an expert on information access, copyright, and free expression, to examine this question and explain why it matters for the future of AI. The web worked because people could access, read, analyze, and build on lawfully available information. Standards like robots.txt helped manage the balance between openness and contr