Open Future Foundation

🗓️ Are you interested in co-designing the Knowledge Commons advocacy strategy? Register your interest to participate in Common(s) Cause, the Wikimania 2024 side event we are organizing with Creative Commons, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Wikimedia Europe. You can find the link in the comment 👇 #DigitalCommons #CommonsCause #Wikimania2024

What do open movement activists, creators, and organizations think about regulating generative AI? Our new report, written by Alek Tarkowski and Shannon Hong, details the findings from the Alignment Assembly on AI and the Commons. Generative AI heavily relies on and impacts the Digital Commons. However, open movement communities have not yet reached a consensus on how this influence should be managed. To address that issue, together with Creative Commons and Fundación Karisma, Open Future hosted a six-week virtual assembly built on prior discussions at the Creative Commons Summit. The assembly highlighted a consensus on valuing public infrastructure and alternatives in AI, though it also revealed divergent views on regulation, indicating a need for reconciliation between “skeptics” and “interventionists.” You can read more in the report linked in the comment👇 #genAI #AI #DigitalCommons

🔎 Transparency of the data used to train AI models is a prerequisite for improving accountability in AI development and can strengthen people’s ability to exercise their fundamental rights. Under the AI Act, there is now a legal obligation to disclose information about content used to train GPAI models according to a template prepared by the AI Office. As the Office takes its final shape, we share a policy brief arguing for a robust transparency of content used to train GPAI models. This paper and the accompanying “Blueprint of the transparency template that the AI office is tasked to develop” was created in collaboration with Mozilla Foundation, drawing on input from experts. You can access the brief using the link in the comment 👇 #AI #GPAI #AIAct #DigitalRights

Known as Digital Commons, communities that self-organize to build and maintain digital resources provide essential infrastructure. “Many Digital Commons today not only maintain key contemporary infrastructures but also form some of the only alternatives to a digital landscape largely dominated by profit-seeking platforms that endanger our democracies and disregard our digital rights. Public institutions need to, therefore, further support these communities. At the same time, communities must also become increasingly aware of their societal responsibilities and take part in broader collective initiatives and partnerships.” – writes Jan Krewer in his latest post. You can find the link in his post below 👇 #DigitalCommons #PublicDigitalInfrastructure #DigitalRights

We are happy to welcome three new Open Future 2024 fellows whose research will expand our work on Digital Commons and Public Digital Infrastructure 🙌 During her fellowship, Mala Kumar will develop evidence-based policy recommendations to advance economic inclusivity and create more viable careers in Public Digital Infrastructure and Digital Commons work 👉 https://lnkd.in/dkZezzhY. Samuel A. Moore will explore how AI intersects with the research lifecycle in the context of academic publishing 👉 https://lnkd.in/dNFCi7nN   Mila Samdub will undertake a comparative study of Digital Public Infrastructures (DPIs) to produce a typology of the definitions and motivations attached to DPIs around the world 👉 https://lnkd.in/d-f4r5R5 #DigitalCommons #PublicDigitalInfrastructure #AI #OpenAccess

💌 Our June newsletter is out. ✦ meet our new fellows #PublicDigitalInfrastructure #AI ✦ check out two new reports #ResponsibleData #Copyright ✦ sign up for our events ✦ …and more Sign up or access the issue 👇 https://lnkd.in/dyk5K2hz

Last week, we were a part of the NGI Commons workshop on co-creating Digital Commons priorities for Europe’s digital decade. The highlights of what happened are available on the NGI Commons blog linked below 👇 #DigitalCommons

Two weeks ago, Open Future took part in a Digital Commons Policy Council workshop aimed at enhancing collaboration between public institutions and Digital Commons initiatives. The link in the comment👇 provides a summary of the policy lab’s outcomes and outlines the next steps, which will inform our work on the strategic agenda for Digital Commons policies as part of the NGI Commons project. #DigitalCommons #Policy #NGICommons

📚Our Director of Strategy, Alek Tarkowski, contributed to the Chatham House's new collection of essays about Artificial intelligence and the challenge for global governance. You can read his piece on Open Source and the democratization of AI here 👉 https://lnkd.in/d_nhMwG3 #AI #genAI #Governance #ParadoxOfOpen #ResponsibleAI

📢 We are about to launch the report on our Alignment Assembly on AI and the Commons. The report tries to answer the question: what do open movement activists, creators, and organizations think about regulating generative AI? You can find us talking about it at Mozfest House Amsterdam this Wednesday, the Public Knowledge Conference in Washington this Friday, and our online launch next week, 19 June, at 17:00 CEST. Details below👇 ⚪ Tomorrow, at MozFest House Amsterdam, Paul Keller, Brigitte Vézina, and Anna Tumadottir will present the results of the Alignment Assembly and lead a discussion about potential next steps. You can find out more about the session here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dydpwcWY ⚪ On Friday, at the Public Knowledge Conference in Washington, the report's authors, Shannon Hong, and Alek Tarkowski, will speak about their findings and how the values of the open movement are critical in the age of AI. More information about the event is available here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dh9pYeXp ⚪ Finally, if you’d like to participate in our official online report launch featuring the authors Shannon Hong and Alek Tarkowski along with the special guests Anna Tumadottir, Paul Keller, Angela Oduor Lungati, Viviana Rangel, and Joshua Tan, you can register and join us on 19 June at 17:00 CEST 👉 https://lnkd.in/djHGS_8Y #AI #genAI #DigitalCommons