With artificial intelligence permeating scientific research, I return to the 2024 paper that Sadia Khan, Alfonso Morales, and I wrote about convergence research on AI in cyberinfrastructure and AI for AI infrastructure. The study targets democratized AI as a goal, and towards that aim captures the overall context of how software development takes place in AI infrastructure research. It was a thought provoking study when we undertook it, and remains every bit relevant today.

Khan, S., Morales, A., Plale, B. (2024). Democratization is a Process, not a Destination: Operationalizing Ethics and Democratization in a Cyberinfrastructure for AI Project. In: Ziosi, M., Sartor, G., Cunha, J.M., Trotta, A., Wicke, P. (eds). AI for People, Democratizing AI. CAIP 2023. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 591. Springer, Cham. DOI:10.1007/978-3-031-71304-0_3 

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