<ul><li>Historians are raising concerns about the ownership of large language models (LLMs) that are transforming scholarly workflows.</li><li>Private companies developing LLMs have goals that may not align with the values of historical scholarship, leading to opacity, instability, and inequity.</li><li>There is a call to build public, open-access LLMs for the humanities that are transparent, accountable, and supported by public funding.</li><li>The humanities have the opportunity to create culturally aware AI and should take responsibility for owning LLMs responsibly for scholarly integrity and public knowledge.</li></ul>

Large language models that power AI should be publicly owned | Letter

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