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.
Learn more about our definition
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.
Learn more about the policy case here
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.
- We host a seminar series that shares insights from leaders in the field such as Yoshua Bengio, Diane Coyle, and Larry Lessig
- We maintain a shared definition of public AI to coordinate our work
Learn more
- White Paper, currently the best overview
- Main Collaborative Working Document, effectively our internal wiki+discussion page
- Seminar Notes & Recordings
- Workshop Paper @ NeurIPS 2023 + poster, intended for the ML community
Getting involved
Public AI is a public, collaborative effort.
- The main project document is publicly-editable. Add a suggestion!
- For questions about public AI or to get involved, sign up for the newsletter, join the Google Group, or contact us.
- We’re recruiting!
- To edit this site (e.g. to add an event or document), go to our GitHub.
Events
- Forthcoming events TBA: Brussels and San Francisco.
- August 13-14, 2024: Building a More Public AI Ecosystem at the Library of Congress
- July 24, 2024: Public AI Social #4 (+ Fishing Expedition) at ICML 2024
- July 15-21, 2024: AI Palace 2024 at Bueckeburg Palace
- March 13, 2024: Public Visions for AI Workshop at Newspeak House
- January 2 - February 27, 2024: Public AI Seminar
- January 8, 2024: Public & Civic AI Social #3 at Newspeak House
- December 14, 2023: Public AI Dinner Party at NeurIPS 2023
- November 16, 2023: Public & Civic AI Social #2 at Newspeak House
- October 17, 2023: Public & Civic AI Social #1 at Newspeak House
- September 21, 2023: Talk at AI: Ethical Paths Forward hosted by the Internet Archive
- September 14, 2023: Public AI Seminar at NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy
- July 3-10, 2023: AI Palace 2023 at Bueckeburg Palace
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.