This thought piece came to mind when I read this headline earlier in the week about pharma companies having enough data to outperform AlphaFold: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-02882-x

Is it fair that mega-corps can horde data and intelligence? Should everything be decentralised or does that create new (worse) challenges?

It's hard to claim that a society is truly democratic if knowledge is not wholly democratised. All that data and intelligence was extracted from the public domain in the first place, anything they develop from it should belong to the public too.

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