Canonical: 20 years of leadership in open source software and the uncertain future of AI

Having reached its 20th year of operation, Canonical stands as one of the most significant companies in the world of open source software. Through infrastructure solutions based on the Ubuntu platform, Canonical has provided millions of users with access to fully supported enterprise-ready applications and played a crucial role in the development of cloud computing IT. The current evolution of information systems towards increasingly pervasive AI raises now issues of truly crucial importance. Among them, perhaps one is almost dramatic: in a world where many decisions could be made by algorithms, how can we control them? How are they created, where do they run? What are the technologies involved? And ultimately, who is in command?