Article: Three principles for growing an AI ecosystem that works for people and planet

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This article was published by The Brookings Institute on 1 August 2025.

Written by Jacob Taylor, Thomas Kehler, Sandy Pentland, and Martin Reeves

Key points:

• An Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystem that works for people and the planet would complement “LLMs” with “localMs” that give communities equity in AI and agency to self-organize around shared priorities.

• Authors present three actionable principles for this alternative ecosystem: frame AI as a social technology, design AI that is loyal to human agency, and coordinate around big-bet applications.

• A moonshot-style effort for a breakthrough application could prove the existential need for a different approach to building AI.