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What is public AI?

  • Public AI is publicly accessible: ensuring AI delivers benefits to all.
  • Public AI is publicly accountable: ensuring AI reflects society’s values.
  • Public AI creates permanent public goods: ensuring AI provides a reliable foundation.
  • Public AI is being designed and built right now - all around the world.

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Why do we need public AI?

  • Limited public capacity in AI is stifling our collective capacity to shape the direction of society.
  • AI is becoming essential infrastructure, like roads and water pipelines - fitting for the public sector.
  • AI systems are growing in power and should reflect society’s values, not the values of shareholders.
  • Private companies have a head start - without investment in public capacity now, the gap will grow.

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Who we are

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI. Our aims are to:

  • Ensure public capacity-building is part of the conversation about AI design, policy, and funding
  • Make it easier to build public AI by coordinating research efforts in the ML community
  • Support policymakers and technical teams seeking to implement public AI
  • Organize the movement for public AI

We host a Slack community which connects together experts from leading public AI projects, thinktanks, and civil society groups as well as a seminar series.

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Getting involved

Public AI is a public, collaborative effort.

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Acknowledgements

A wide range of people have contributed ideas and time to the movement for public AI. We gratefully acknowledge operational support by Metagov, Aspen Digital, Open Future, Public Knowledge, Code for Science and Society, and Chatham House.

License

The work in this repository is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.