Publications

Research, whitepapers, proposals and design documents advancing the vision of Public AI. If you are writing about Public AI, or know of research or other publications we should include, reach out or make a pull request.

Selected works

Date	Title	Description
Aug 10, 2024 Whitepaper	Public AI Whitepaper B. Jackson, B Cavello, N. Garcia, J. Tan, S. Klein, A. Krasodomski, F. Devine, E. Tursman.	Comprehensive framework for developing and deploying AI systems as public infrastructure with democratic oversight.
Aug 14, 2024 Talk	Why this is the Moment for Public AI Larry Lessig	How to ensure public access to the potential of AI, and avoid mistakes made in building the Web.
Sep 30, 2024 Whitepaper	Public AI: Making AI Work For Everyone, By Everyone Nik Marda, Jasmine Sun, Mark Surman, Mozilla	The case for promoting public goods and public orientation throughout AI development.
May 20, 2025 Whitepaper	Open Future: White Paper on Public AI Felix Sieker, Alek Tarkowski, Lea Gimpel, and Cailean Osborne, Open Future	Policy recommendations for establishing public AI as a cornerstone of digital sovereignty across Europe.
May 2025 Policy Brief	Canada as a Champion for Public AI Nicholas Vincent, Mark Surman, Jake Hirsch-Allen	Canada’s unique position and opportunity to lead in developing public AI infrastructure.
Jun 18, 2025 Report	Intelligence in the Public Interest B Cavello, Eleanor Tursman, Aspen Digital	Part of a Community-Aligned AI Benchmarks workstream on public interest AI.
Aug 2025 Proposal	Airbus for AI Joshua Tan, Brandon Jackson, Robin Berjon, Diane Coyle	Applying large-scale public-private collaboration models like Airbus to AI development for viable public alternatives.
Sep 2, 2025 Design doc	Data Flywheels and Public AI Nick Vincent, et al.	How data flywheels can be reimagined for public AI systems that serve collective interests rather than extractive profit models.

Other network publications

Sep 9, 2025 Op-Ed	Should the public sector build its own AI? Gideon Lichfield, FT	How some countries are trying to take back control of access to AI
May 29, 2025 Proposal	Minimum Viable Public AI Utility Co. Brandon Jackson, et al.	Framework for establishing minimal viable public AI utilities as foundational community infrastructure.
May 2025 Report	Public AI in Singapore Joseph Low	Review of Singapore’s position as regional AI leader, proposal of a “Singapore AI-lines” framework.
Feb 20, 2025 Report	Public AI in Canada’s National AI Institutes Anthony De Luca-Baratta, Aspen Digital	How Canada’s national AI institutes are positioned to advance public AI initiatives and infrastructure.
Oct 3, 2024 Policy Brief	Democratizing AI for the Public Good Lea Gimpel, Daniel Brumund, Alek Tarkowski, Maximilian Gahntz, et al., Open Future	How open source AI as digital public goods can advance AI democratization.
Sep 5, 2024 Essay	What Public AI can Learn from Public Health Diego Burga, Aspen Digital	Lessons from public health models for developing AI systems that prioritize collective well-being and access.
Jun 12, 2023 Op-Ed	Build AI By The People, For The People Bruce Schneier, Nathan E. Sanders, FP.com	Call for public sector investment in AI given risks of Silicon Valley dominance.

Other papers about public AI

Nov 7, 2024 Policy Brief	Antimonopoly Tools for Regulating AI Ganesh Sitaraman, Tejas Narechania	Technical analysis of the AI stack and public options to combat concentrated private power.
Sep 24, 2024 Policy Brief	The National Security Case for Public AI Ganesh Sitaraman, Alex Pascal, Vanderbilt	Why the U.S. should embrace the public sector’s role in building and governing AI for national security.
Sep 2024 Policy Brief	Creating a Public Cloud through the Defense Production Act Joel Dodge, Vanderbilt	How the Defense Production Act can be used to acquire GPUs for public cloud infrastructure.
Jun 7, 2024 Essay	A ‘CERN for AI’ – International AI Research Organization Elliot Jones	Exploring whether a CERN-like model could work for AI governance. (and 8 related essays)
Apr 2024 Paper	Defining Public AI Serpentine Arts Technologies	Publicness as a spectrum of public agency, ranging from ‘thin’ to ‘thick’.
Apr 24, 2024 Article	The Role of Public Compute Eleanor Shearer, Matt Davies, Mathew Lawrence	Challenges to address for realizing the potential of public compute policies.
Apr 6, 2024 Workshop	Building a New Political Economy for AI Becky Chao, Economic Security Project	Workshop findings on governing tech and AI for broad-based prosperity.
Mar 13, 2024 Op-Ed	How States Can Keep Big Tech from Dominating AI Natalie Foster, Ganesh Sitaraman	Survey of state-level initiatives to advance Public AI.
Mar 12, 2024 Overview	AI Nationalism(s): Global Industrial Policy Approaches Amba Kak, et al., AI Now	Survey of industrial policies proposed by governments with differing motivations.
Nov 10, 2019 Op-Ed	AI Is Too Important to Leave to Google and Facebook Alone Ben Gansky, Michael Martin, Ganesh Sitaraman	Argument for a public research consortium to tackle AI projects with no commercial prospects.