Contributors

The Public AI Network brings together a diverse coalition of researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and organizations, all advancing public AI. Our community spans academia, civil society, government, and industry, united by a shared vision of AI that serves the public good. Join us!

Contributors

Contributors to our collective work, from publications and advocacy to technical projects and events. This list is under construction - add yourself!

Albert Cañigueral

Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Focus: Airbus for AI

2024

Alex Krasodomski

Chatham House

Community Organizer
Focus: Digital public infrastructure, partnerships

Founding Member

Alek Tarkowski

Open Future

Community Organizer
Focus: • Digital commons advocacy, open licensing, data governance

2023

Avani Wildani

Cloudflare

Focus: Data pipelines, distributed systems

2023

B Cavello

Aspen Digital

Community Organizer Focus: Benchmarks lead, Policy strategy, AI governance, public interest tech

Founding Member

Beatrice Murch

Internet Archive Europe

Focus: Cultural heritage preservation, libraries

2025

Bettina Warburg

📚

Focus: Web3, strategic innovation, knowledge integrity

2024

Bobbi Rakova

Responsible AI

Focus: Responsible AI, mechanism design

2024

Brandon Jackson

🎨

Focus: Whitepaper lead, product design, creative applications of AI

Founding Member

Catherine Geanuracos

Civic Tech

Focus: Civic technology, speculative fiction

2024

David Pham

Simon Fraser University

Focus: Data economics, safety

2024

Diane Coyle

University of Cambridge

Seminar: • Public policy for tech (summary)
Focus: Economics, digital policy

2024

Don Means

Gigabit Libraries Network

Focus: Libraries, digital infrastructure

2024

MEMBERS A-D

Eleanor Tursman

The Aspen Institute

Focus: Program development, tech policy, digital equity

2024

Felix Sieker

Bertelsmann Foundation

Focus: Common good, social policy, innovation strategy

2024

Flynn Devine

Boundary Object Studio

Focus: Research, sociotechnical systems, participatory design

2023

Gideon Lichfield

Journalist

Seminar: • Past and future narratives for tech (summary)
• June 3, 2025
Focus: Tech journalism, narrative building

2024

Jacob Taylor

Brookings Institution

Focus: Collective intelligence, sustainable development

2024

Jake Hirsch-Allen

The Dais

Focus: Canadian policy, partnerships

2024

Joseph Low

Product Design

Focus: Product design

2024

Joshua Hewson

Brown

Focus: Alignment, cognitive enhancement, neuroscience

2024

Joshua Tan

Oxford, Metagov

Community Organizer
Focus: Airbus lead, computational governance, inference whisperer, libraries

Founding Member

Katherine Elkins

Interdisciplinary AI

Focus: Storytelling, interdisciplinary AI

2024

Katherine Gorman

🛜

Focus: Communications, alignment

2025

Larry Williams

UnionBase

Focus: Labor and economics

2024

Lorelei Kelly

Smart Congress

Focus: Democracy, government modernization

2024

Luca Cominassi

Parti Collective

Focus: Airbus for AI

2024

MEMBERS E-L

Magnus Sahlgren

AI Sweden

Seminar: • GPT-SW3 (summary)
• September 24, 2024
Focus: Swedish language model development

Season 2

Max Gahntz

Mozilla

Focus: AI policy

2025

Melissa Regan

Writer

Focus: Speculative fiction

2024

Meredith Whipple

Public Knowledge

Focus: Policy, civic technology

2024

Natalie Buda Smith

Library of Congress

Focus: Libraries, government, humans in the loop. (interview)

2024

Nick Garcia

Public Knowledge

Community Organizer
Focus: Policy advocacy, community governance digital rights, libraries

Founding Member

Nick Vincent

Simon Fraser University

Focus: Data contribution systems, platform cooperatives, labor, data flywheel

2024

Nicolas Flores-Herr

Fraunhofer

Focus: Conversational AI, training, neuroscience

2025

Philip Tomei

Philiip Tomei

AI Objectives Institute

Focus: Art and AI, labor and societal impacts

2024

Sam Klein

Harvard Berkman Klein Center

Community Organizer Focus: Decentralized infrastructure, universal library,
Wiki AI

Founding Member

Sarah Schwettmann

Transluce, MIT

Focus: Interpretability, third-party audits

2024

MEMBERS M-Z

Speakers & Collaborators

Speakers, collaborators, and sources of inspiration. Check out their work!

Aza Raskin

Center for Humane Technology, Earth Species Project

Seminar: • The AI Dilemma (summary)
• October 8, 2024
Focus: Humane AI, attention economy

Season 2

Beth Noveck

GovLab, NEU, Chief AI Strategist for NJ

Speaker: Government innovation, AI strategy (LOC event)

Multiple events

Bruce Schneier

Harvard

Seminar: • Public options for AI (summary)
• January 9, 2024
Focus: Security, public interest technology

Season 1

Dan Zhao

MIT

Seminar: • Agent Strategy (notes)
• August 21, 2025
Focus: Multimodal agents, benchmarks

Season 3

David Bau

Northeastern

Seminar: • The National Deep Inference Fabric (summary)
• July 11, 2025
Focus: Neural network interpretability

Season 3

David Eaves

UCL

Seminar: • Lessons from digital public infrastructure (summary)
• February 20, 2024
Focus: Digital government, open data

Season 1

Divya Siddarth

Collective Intelligence Project

Seminar: • Democratic AI (summary)
• September 17, 2024
Focus: Participatory governance, collective intelligence

Season 2

EM Lewis-Jong

Mozilla

Seminar: • Community data and Common Voice (summary)
• May 6, 2025
Focus: Common Voice dataset

Season 3

Ganesh Sitaraman

Vanderbilt

Seminar: • Industrial organization and antimonopoly (summary)
• February 13, 2024
Focus: Antitrust, constitutional law

Season 1

Irene Solaiman

HuggingFace

Seminar: • The role of openness in AI (summary)
• September 10, 2024
Focus: AI safety, responsible release

Season 2

SPEAKERS A-I

Jeni Tennison

Connected by Data

Seminar: • Community power in AI (summary)
• October 1, 2024
Focus: Data governance, collective consent

Season 2

Julia Angwin

New York Times / Harvard

Seminar: • The politics of AI (summary)
• February 6, 2024
Focus: Algorithmic accountability journalism

Season 1

Julia Lane

NYU Wagner School

Seminar: • AI and the labor market (summary)
• Library of Congress Speaker
Focus: Data science, labor economics

Multiple Events

Katie Antypas

National Science Foundation

Seminar: • Public compute (summary)
• AI in the Agencies Panel - LoC
Focus: Research computing infrastructure

Multiple Events

Kim Stanley Robinson

Author

Seminar: • The near possible future of AI (summary)
• June 10, 2025
Notable: Science fiction, climate futures

Season 3

Lawrence Lessig

Harvard Law School

Seminar: • AI and democracy (summary)
• Library of Congress: Why This is the Moment for Public AI
Focus: Democracy, regulation, institutional corruption

Multiple Events

Leslie Teo

AI Singapore

Seminar: • SEA-LION (summary)
• August 27, 2024
Focus: Southeast Asian language models

Season 2

Martin Tisné

AI Collaborative, Current AI, Omidyar

Seminar: • Public interest AI (summary)
• May 20, 2025
Focus: Data rights, philanthropy

Season 3

Mat Dryhurst

Artist

Seminar: • Do Not Train (summary)
• April 22, 2025
Focus: Spawning AI, artist rights

Season 3

SPEAKERS J-M

Nicole DeCario

Allen Institute (AI2)

Seminar: • Public compute (summary)
• August 20, 2024
Focus: AI2 compute infrastructure

Season 2

Reema Selhi

DACS, British Copyright Council

Seminar: • AI and copyright (summary)
• April 22, 2025
Focus: Copyright law, artist rights

Season 3

Rick Stevens

Argonne National Labs

Seminar: • Case study: AuroraGPT (summary)
• January 23, 2024
Focus: Science-focused language models

Season 1

Sarah Myers West

AI Now

Seminar: • AI Nationalisms (summary)
• October 15, 2024
Focus: AI policy, geopolitics

Season 2

Ted Chiang

Author

Seminar: • Generative AI is not useful for making art
• April 29, 2025
Notable: Science fiction, AI criticism

Season 3

Taylor Jo Isenberg

Economic Security Project

Seminar: • A Vision for Public AI in California (summary)
• May 13, 2025
Focus: Economic policy, public options

Season 3

Yoshua Bengio

MILA, LawZero

Seminar: • Towards a network of publicly-funded AI labs (summary)
• August 13, 2024
Focus: AI safety advocacy, LawZero

Season 2

SPEAKERS N-Z

Other facilitators and speakers at past Public AI events include:

AI in the Agencies panel, Library of Congress, 2024-08-11: Travis Hoppe (AI R&D, White House OSTP), Victoria Houed (AI Policy, Commerce; now at POPVOX), Zach Whitman (Chief AI Officer, GSA). Caroyln Dee (NY State AI policy) gave a presentation about the state of Empire AI.
Public AI Congress, Paris, 2025-02-11: Adriana Groh, Sovereign Tech Agency (Germany); Alexander Ilic, ETH AI Center (Switzerland); Marta Villegas, BSC (Spain); Petri Myllymäki, Ellis Institute (Finland)
AI Action II, Fey, 2025-02-12/13: Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive), Peter Wang (Anaconda), Primavera De Filippi (Alien), Pedro Ortiz Suarez (Common Crawl), Vincent Ginis (VUB)

Supporting Organizations

We gratefully acknowledge operational support and collaboration from:

CS&S

BKC

PMF

LoC

Metagov · Aspen Digital · Public Knowledge · Chatham House
Code for Science and Society · Berkman Klein Center · Rokefeller Foundation
Mozilla Foundation · Patrick J. McGovern Foundation · Siegel Family · Open Future
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Bertelsmann Foundation · Creative Commons

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