Favorite The recent US Executive Order on AI directs action for numerous federal agencies. This includes directing the National Telecommunications and Information Agency (NTIA*) to discuss benefits, risks and policy choices associated with dual-use foundation models, which are powerful models that can be fine-tuned and used for multiple purposes, with
Favorite There is a debate within the AI community around the risks of widely releasing foundation models with their weights and the societal impact of that decision. Some are arguing that the wide availability of Llama2 or Stable Diffusion XL are a net negative for society. A position paper released
Favorite Two years ago, we started migrating our website from Drupal to WordPress. We knew it wasn’t going to be a quick weekend project, but more of a journey. Today, we celebrate the final leg of this voyage – merging our blog back into the main site, creating a unified
Favorite A weekly summary of interesting threads on the forum. Is the definition of “AI system” by the OECD too broad? Central question: Do we need to define what AI systems are? Yes, we need to define “AI systems” to have a clear target of what the freedoms refer to
Favorite Discussions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulation will be heating up in 2024 with a provisional agreement for the EU AI Act having been reached in December 2023. The evolution of the EU AI Act is progressing toward a technology-neutral definition for AI to be applied to future AI systems.
Favorite 2023 was a big year of progress toward our goal of establishing a Definition for Open Source AI, but we still have a long way to go. Strong momentum of global collaboration toward this end will continue in 2024, and we need your help. I detailed what we have
Favorite During 2023, OSI and many others across the Open Source communities spent a great deal of time and energy engaging with the various co-legislators of the European Union (EU) concerning the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). Together with a revision to Europe’s Product Liability Directive (PLD), the CRA will bring
Favorite Brussels, February 1, 2024 – Today, the results of the annual Open Source survey conducted by OpenLogic by Perforce in collaboration with the OSI and the Eclipse Foundation were shared in the 2024 State of Open Source Report. The 2024 State of Open Source Report sheds light on the
Favorite At the August board meeting, the OSI board voted to add two new appointed seats, and at the December board meeting named Professor Sayeed Choudhury and Gaël Blondelle as new board members. The expansion of the board was voted upon to give greater operational stability and continuity to the
Favorite In OSI’s feedback to the European Commission’s proposed Standard Essential Patent (SEP) Regulation (SEP-R), OSI recommended that the legislation add a waiting period for patent claims registered under the regulation as standard-essential after the standard has been ratified. The recommendation was based on the social purpose behind tolerating the
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