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Friction in AI Governance: Performing Participation
In this article, Nadia takes a closer look at and debunks a few popular participation practices.
“It’s infrastructure, stupid”
The Microsoft-Mistral partnership proves that without infrastructure independence, Europe’s digital sovereignty will remain just a pipe dream.
Raising the Bar for Germany’s Tech Diplomacy
Germany's new international strategy supports open internet foundations and global digital infrastructure but still lacks ambition and clear commitments for a society-centered digital transformation.
AI and the Commons: building AI datasets for the future
At our first 2024 AI and the Commons Community Call, we were joined by Eryk Salvaggio, an interdisciplinary researcher, lecturer, and artist who works with digital media and AI.
Insights from The Case for a Big EU OSS Fund Panel
Open Future participated in the EU Open Source Policy Summit in Brussels, where we contributed to the panel about the necessity of investing in open source and public digital infrastructure.
Alignment Assembly on AI and the Commons
Open Future is hosting an asynchronous, virtual alignment assembly for the open movement to explore principles and considerations for regulating generative AI. We hope to reach 500 participants, spread across different fields of open and coming from different regions of the world.
Meet Jan Krewer, our new Senior Policy Analyst
We are pleased to announce that Jan Krewer has joined Open Future as a Senior Policy Analyst. Jan will strengthen our work on Digital Commons and lead our activities related to the European Union-funded Next Generation Internet (NGI) Commons project.
Open Future Joins NGI Commons
Open Future’s role in the project is to develop a strategic agenda for Digital Commons policies, especially in the context of the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) — the EU's long-term budget.
AI and the Commons: the paradox of open (for business)
To discuss the work presented in “Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI," we have invited its authors to join our monthly community calls, which explore the intersection of AI and the Commons.
AI and the Commons: the Wikimedia movement
As a part of exploring the relationship between generative AI systems and the commons, we have been looking closely at the approach taken on Wikipedia.
A Frankenstein-like approach: open source in the AI act
Late last week, the European Commission, the Member States, and the European Parliament reached a deal on the AI Act. The current compromise is a combination of tiered obligations and a limited open source exemption which creates a situation where open source AI models can get away with being less transparent and less well-documented than proprietary GPAI models.
