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Rising to answer the call: sound public policy for Open Source questions
I’m pleased to share the news that I’ve accepted the role of US Policy Director for the Open Source Initiative (OSI), effective immediately. Under the leadership of OSI’s executive director Stefano Maffulli I’ve joined and will complement its policy and standards efforts led in Europe by long-time OSI leader Simon Phipps. In hearing OSI’s early…
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OSI Executive Director to speak at Open Source Summit Europe
We are slowly, but surely starting to return to in person events. Our next stop is Dublin for Linux Foundation’s Open Source Summit Europe, from September 13th to the 16th. Thrilled to meet Open Source developers, technologists, and community leaders alike. Come visit our booth B12. The OSI’s own Executive Director will be giving not one,…
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Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions?
The Tornado Cash case: Did the US Treasury censor code or illegal actions?
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Episode 4: Building creative restrictions to curb AI abuse
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, and David Gray Widder, a Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, discuss David’s research and findings on ethics in artificial intelligence and, in particular, the challenges software engineers face related to trust and ethics in AI.
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Episode 4: transcript
“DGW: Some people just want to download the software and make porn with it. And if they don’t know how to program, and there is that restriction, that stops them. That’s a meaningful impediment. It’s a speed bump. It doesn’t stop you going down the road, but it makes it harder, it makes it slower,…
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Now Hiring: Community Manager for ClearlyDefined Project
We’re hiring! The Open Source Initiative is looking for a Community Manager to help grow the contributions to ClearlyDefined and expand its reach. Consumers of Open Source often struggle to find basic things like the license for a component, the source location (e.g., Git commit) for a version, and details to be included in attributions…
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Episode 3: When hackers take on AI: Sci-fi – or the future?
In 2020 during the height of the pandemic, Connor Leahy, co-founder of EleutherAI and CEO at Conjecture, and other bored, self-described hackers and AI enthusiasts were chatting on Discord about how cool GTP-3 is and how fun it would be to build an machine learning model like that, but make it “Open Source”. GPT-3 (Generative…
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Episode 3: transcript
[00:00:01] Connor Leahy: When a human says something, there’s all these hidden assumptions. If I tell my robot to go get me coffee, the only thing the robot wants to do is to get coffee, hypothetically. It wants to go and get the coffee as quickly as possible, so it’ll run through the wall, run…
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Episode 2: Solving for AI’s black box problem
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, and Alek Tarkowski, strategy director of Open Future Foundation, examine ways that “real life” is being impacted by automated decision making and artificial intelligence.
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Episode 2: transcript
“AT: We know that a lot of the technological stack of AI systems is open. It’s based — funded on open code. That doesn’t solve any of the problems of the black boxes we discussed of possible harms. I think we need to take the spirit of open source, of openness, but really look for…
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@osi so this isn’t law yet, it’s just a suggestion? 100% Microslop will get their grimy hands into the process…