Open Source Initiative executive director Duane O’Brien represented the OSI at the 81st UN General Assembly, speaking on a UN Digital Cooperation Day panel about defining Open Source AI and joining a Creative Commons symposium on openness and digital sovereignty, where he summed up the organization’s position as ‘Open by itself does very little but enables a lot’. He described the Open Source AI Definition as the product of two years of workshops in 18 countries and said the OSI will soon reopen conversations about it, and noted that the G7’s Vision on AI Openness, which the OSI helped draft, now calls for releasing the training data developers can share and accurately describing what they cannot. The OSI also attended the inaugural 50-in-5 Awards for digital public infrastructure, stressing that software qualifies as a digital public good only if it carries an OSI-approved license, and O’Brien argued that open alternatives need decades of sustained investment to flourish.
Open Enables a Lot: The OSI at UNGA81
Open Source Initiative executive director Duane O'Brien represented the OSI at the 81st UN General Assembly, speaking on a UN Digital Cooperation Day panel about defining Open Source AI and joining a Creative Commons symposium on openness and digital sovereignty, where he summed up the organization's position as 'Open by itself does very little but enables a lot'. He described the Open Source AI Definition as the product of two years of workshops in 18 countries and said the OSI will soon reopen conversations about it, and noted that the G7's Vision on AI Openness, which the OSI helped draft, now calls for releasing the training data developers can share and accurately describing what they cannot. The OSI also attended the inaugural 50-in-5 Awards for digital public infrastructure, stressing that software qualifies as a digital public good only if it carries an OSI-approved license, and O'Brien argued that open alternatives need decades of sustained investment to flourish.
Source: Opensource