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Mike Linksvayer, head of developer policy at GitHub in a conversation with Open Source Initiative’s executive director Stefano Maffulli talking about AI.

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.

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.

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…

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. 

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.

With AI systems being so complex, concepts like “program” or “source code” in the Open Source Definition are challenged in new and surprising ways.