I got this question from a contact in the fediverse:

why should we choose open formats?

It’s a good question, so I’ll repeat my answer here. These are some examples from my own life, where proprietary file formats have inserted sticks into my wheels and prevented me from accessing my own data.

The Norwegian documentary iHuman explores the current state of artificial intelligence by letting some of the formative people in the business speak more or less freely. Both the people who work on AI, and sees the technology in a positive light, and the sceptics and those wary of it. Together they paint a fairly bleak picture of what is ahead.