Governance

Since launching Zoo Labs Foundation, we’ve processed 47 Zoo Improvement Proposals (ZIPs). Today we share lessons learned and improvements to the governance process. The Case for Governance AI development involves decisions that affect many stakeholders: What data should models train on? How should capabilities be released? What safety measures are required? How should resources be allocated? These questions don’t have purely technical answers. They require value judgments. Centralized organizations make these judgments internally....

Science is Broken The modern scientific enterprise suffers from systemic dysfunction: Publication cartels charge researchers to publish and readers to access Reproducibility crisis undermines trust in published findings Funding concentration directs resources toward safe, incremental work Credential gatekeeping excludes capable researchers without institutional affiliation These are not bugs. They are features of a system optimized for the interests of incumbents, not the advancement of knowledge. A Decentralized Alternative Decentralized Science (DeSci) applies blockchain and cryptographic primitives to scientific infrastructure:...