Trusting AI is dangerous. It’s time for an open-source revival

I’ve always respected the ideals of open source software. The community committed to these services and programs have incredible, noble devotion to tracking the ins and outs of code. But until recently, I generally viewed an open source philosophy as a bonus, nice to see but not heavily influential when deciding what to use.

But AI has upended a lot of my perspective, including how much to trust closed source code. Before, I made my choices based on feature sets and interfaces. Now I’m...