First Insights: Deep Dive AI Podcast
A little over five weeks ago, we started exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) impacts Open Source software, from developers to businesses to the rest of us. AI systems are so…
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Episode 5: Why Debian won’t distribute AI models any time soon
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative, and Mo Zhou, AI research expert and Debian developer, examine the key components of artificial intelligence systems and how those components by their very nature complicate the idea of AI software that is truly open source.
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….
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.
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…
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.
Episode 1: Copyright, Selfie Monkeys and the Hand of God
In this episode, Stefano Maffulli, executive director of the Open Source Initiative explores copyrights in the context of software and data with OSI board member Pamela Chestek.
We’re exploring the role of Open Source in AI
Deep Dive: AI has officially started! The podcast is live and you should subscribe now so you don’t miss any of the five episodes of this first series.
Reflecting on SCaLE 19x
We spent this past weekend in Los Angeles at the SCaLE 19X conference and it was a great time. Three of our board members were speakers at this year’s conference….
OSI to attend SCaLE 19x conference
Meet OSI at SCaLE 19X- the 19th annual Southern California Linux Expo happening July 28th – July 30th.
Tackling sticky questions about cryptocurrency and Open Source from a legal perspective
In the days following the Free Software Foundation Europe Legal Network Conference in Stockholm, an email discussion ensued that brought up challenging questions around cryptocurrency and blockchain distributed ledger technology…
Why we need to dive deeper into AI
Discussing if Copilot has an Open Source license issue or a copyright issue means getting lost in legal weeds and missing the point. To me the issue with Copilot is fairness. But it’s not just GitHub.