This playbook is a legal research resource for various activities related to data gathering, data governance, and disposition of an AI model available as a public resource. It aims to benefit academic and government researchers including those in New York State who wish to understand how best to use AI models to provide natural language processing (“NLP”) as public infrastructure, but who do not have legal resources. The playbook aims to be a general informational resource to public organizations, including cross national organizations focused on non-commercial open science in NLP and
promotion of the human rights to equal access to scientific advancement under UDHR Art. 27.
With this playbook, we strive to assist researchers who have less resources to help them guide their communities and their research, including low income communities who may not have access to legal resources. In particular, this playbook is cross jurisdictional, and hopefully will be relevant to NLP and data researchers in underserved language communities whose data will be processed (e.g., minority dual-language speakers) and those who wish to participate and have a stake in AI.
This playbook was drafted as part of the
year-long BigScience workshop and is not legal advice. This playbook is made available under the
CC-BY license. This playbook is not legal advice and is only intended as research of the legal landscape at or around the “Last Updated” date.
