this has been moved to its own thread as it is its own topic.
Quoting from the article:
The bottom line is that Canonical is ramping up its use of AI tools in a focused and principled manner that favours open weight models with license terms that feel most compatible with our values, combined with open source harnesses. AI features will be landing in Ubuntu throughout the next year as we feel that they’re of sufficient maturity and quality, with a bias toward local inference by default.
AI features in Ubuntu features will come in two forms: first as a means of enhancing existing OS functionality with AI models in the background, and latterly in the form of “AI native” features and workflows for those who want them.
It goes on, but this is the meat of it.
The way I've got it figured, you will have some ambivalent, some against A.I. and some in favor of it.
The clincher of this is that if a large group supports it and a large group opposes it; the only proper course is to not include it.
This is because those that support it can install it if they want it.
Those who do not care, do not count.
Those that do not want it are not needlessly subjected to it.
To go the other way means that the A.I. adoption is Integrated A.I.. That means, want it or not, it is baked in.
This means it Must be Serving Canonical's Self Interest and the end users views on it are simply invalid - they have a different customer.