Open-source AI isn’t just evolving — it’s spreading, adapting, and taking root. The real question is: who helps ensure those systems stay open, resilient, and community-driven instead of being absorbed or erased? At #MozFest2026, the Developers Wilding track is bringing together the people building, protecting, and challenging the future of open AI. We’re looking for principal engineers, safety researchers, standards leaders, and technical practitioners ready to lead bold conversations and share their work. Interested? Submit your proposal by June 15! https://lnkd.in/gR9JM7XC
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Thank you to everyone who joined us in the Zoom room for this incredible panel yesterday 🤩 There's a lot to unpack, but the one question that erupted in the chat was: Can you really build democratic tools on an anti-democratic stack owned by a handful of companies? Dig in to the full session here ⤵️ and watch this space as we: - build off of themes and questions inspired by the Zoom chat - get ready to announce the Mozilla Foundation AI x Democracy cohort ⚡ Lastly, shout out to our incredible panel 👏 More to come soon Nabiha Syed, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director, Ushahidi Arnau Monterde, Director of Democratic Innovation, City of Barcelona Woodrow H., Boston University Claudia Chwalisz, Founder & CEO, DemocracyNext https://lnkd.in/eTVHM4Rs
The dominant narrative about AI and democracy is a troubling one. Synthetic content flooding our information environments, surveillance trained on activists, and engagement over truth. But we don't have to accept that narrative as inevitable. On May 20, Mozilla Foundation is hosting a community convening featuring a panel of experts with sharply different perspectives, who will press what we've been told to be true. We'll uncover: ✅ Where is AI genuinely useful in democratic life, and where should it simply not go? ✅ Should AI systems intrinsically reflect democratic values like transparency and accountability? ✅ And most importantly…who should decide? This is a conversation about what it means to build technology with democratic intent, and interrogate whether that's even enough. Joining the conversation: Nabiha Syed, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director, Ushahidi Arnau Monterde, Director of Democratic Innovation, City of Barcelona Woodrow H., Professor of Law, Boston University Claudia Chwalisz, Founder & CEO, DemocracyNext 🗓️ Wednesday, May 20 5PM CEST / 11AM EDT / 8AM PDT RSVP and join us for what comes next ⬇️ https://mzl.la/3RqhWag
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Calling all developers working on good tech 📢 Mozilla Festival wants to see your work 👀 Apply by May 24! https://mzl.la/4v0dopJ
Open source AI is growing in the wild 🪴 but who gets to decide if what’s being built becomes durable, or gets paved over? #MozFest 2026's Developers Wilding track is where that conversation happens, and we’re looking for principal engineers, safety leads, standards folks to lead the discussion. Sound like you? We're keen to see your work! Submit your work ASAP! CFP closes May 24 🗓️ https://mzl.la/4fAO3y5
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Proud to see Mozilla’s vision for open-source AI and digital sovereignty front and center at Upper Bound 2026. As Mark Surman Surman shared on stage, the future of AI isn’t just about access to powerful models — it’s about ownership, transparency, and control. From lowering enterprise AI costs through open-source models to helping organizations keep their data and infrastructure within their own control, the conversation in Edmonton made one thing clear: sustainable AI ecosystems are built on openness. Check it out here: https://lnkd.in/ecGhcBr4
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RSVP and join the conversation ⚡ https://bit.ly/4wAmfA4 🗓️ Wednesday, May 20 5PM CEST / 11AM EDT / 8AM PDT
If you've been in a room discussing tech with me recently, you've probably heard me say this: I don't believe technology is inherently good or bad. It's how we choose to build and use it that determines its utility, and its overall influence on our actions. Tomorrow, I’ll be on a panel convened by Mozilla, moderated by Nabiha Syed, and in conversation with Claudia Chwalisz, Arnau Monterde and Woodrow H. to talk about whether AI can genuinely strengthen democratic life, where it shouldn't go, and whether we've got the whole framing backwards. Different perspectives, no easy answers Sign up for what is bound to be an interesting conversation! https://lnkd.in/diprZM-Q
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There's a lot of discussion about democracy and AI going on these days. I'm looking forward to diving into a conversation about it at the Mozilla Foundation community convening this Thursday - join us! A sneak peek at some thoughts I'll expand upon: First I think we need to interrogate: what do we even mean by democracy. The dominant narrative of democracy = elections has taken hold, anchoring us in a narrow conception of the term, far away from its original meaning. Part of the problem today is that our practices and institutions have a veneer of people power, whereas in reality they concentrate power in the hands of the few. We live in elected oligarchies that we call democracies; no wonder people lament that they're not functioning properly! The debate tends to be framed in a binary way, though. Either we defend today's institutions, or we slide into autocracy. Yet there is growing practice and support for democratic innovations that draw on ancient practices like sortition (random selection of decision makers), deliberation, and rotation of power - like citizens' assemblies. In today’s context, questioning what we mean by ‘democracy’ is relevant when we are also interested in concepts like ‘democratic resilience’, in building new democratic institutions, and in questioning where should AI come in to all of this? For democratic resilience, we need to build new institutions anchored in different practices of genuine democracy – which ultimately requires deliberation, critical thinking, exchanging arguments, understanding each others’ values, having empathy, expressing love, conversing, listening, and finding compromise. Over and over again. In all spheres of daily life, not just in ‘government’. That's my starting point for thinking about democracy & AI. It becomes a rather different question and conversation when we ask how can technology help strengthen people's democratic muscles, listed above. I'm looking forward to exploring these questions together with: Nabiha Syed, Executive Director, Mozilla Foundation Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director, Ushahidi Arnau Monterde, Director of Democratic Innovation, City of Barcelona Woodrow H., Professor of Law, Boston University 🗓️ Wednesday, May 20 5PM CEST / 11AM EDT / 8AM PDT RSVP and join us for what comes next ⬇️ https://mzl.la/3RqhWag
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As AI adoption accelerates, one thing is becoming clear: governance and responsibility are non-negotiables. This week, Stephanie Mehta from Fast Company interviewed Mark Surman on why companies that want to earn trust in the AI era must empower employees to help shape how AI is used, invest in meaningful governance and oversight, and prioritize accountability at every level of the organization. “The consequences of being untrustworthy and ignoring accountability are through the roof.” Read more here: https://lnkd.in/g-qZWPi5
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Heads up, AI safety people! I am a little bit obsessed with this dataset, which would be useful for so many of the people who help safeguard AI deployments: builders working on safety classifiers, red-team automation, model-card transparency, or anyone needs a citable public record of GenAI failure modes (researchers, journalists). Calling out my Mozilla colleagues 0DIN.ai for their incredible work, and for sharing it through Mozilla Data Collective 🧡 If you're not familiar, 0DIN is a GenAI bug bounty programme. Each record in this weekly export is a validated jailbreak or security boundary failure, structured against 0DIN's own (I have to say, great!) taxonomy: category, strategy, technique, affected model and vendor, severity, Social Impact Score, researcher credit where given. The prompts and payloads are excluded by privacy-conscious design so we're just left with the structured signal: aka, what broke, where, how badly, and on which model. Download it! It's completely fascinating. https://lnkd.in/e2kWcsRJ
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Join us in congratulating the inaugural grantees! Humanity AI is a collaborative philanthropic initiative dedicated to ensuring AI serves the public good. Learn more here: https://humanityai.ai/
Today we announce our inaugural grantmaking effort totaling more than $18 million. The investment centers organizations whose work spans the most urgent frontiers of #AI’s impact on society, including safeguarding democratic institutions, protecting workers’ rights, strengthening journalism, and advancing education. In addition to organizational support, we are supporting the launch of a new collaborative program: AI Civics. AI Civics addresses the fundamental question of ensuring that local communities and sectors that serve the public good get to shape how they use, develop, and regulate AI. We are proud to support the organizations who are creating and promoting ways for the public to imagine what AI can and should be, open new areas of exploration through signature projects, and fund the research and storytelling that make the case for a society where AI works for people. Join us in congratulating some of our inaugural grantees: AI Now Institute, Center for Democracy & Technology, Council on Foreign Relations, Digital Public Library of America, The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), Pulitzer Center, Data & Society Research Institute, Kinfolk Tech, Partnership on AI, National Student Legal Defense Network, TechEquity To learn more, visit our website: https://humanityai.ai/
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many, in recent years, have been complaining about the (so-called) 'enshitification' of platforms (i'm looking at you, Cory Doctorow) but how many practice good digital hygiene? this sunday, i'm teaming up with Mozilla and am hosting an event in nyc to prune our following lists (and real bonsais!) in celebration of spring and good digital hygiene the event is in conjunction with my new research on Instagram's Close Friends feature and its social functions which will be published by Mozilla i surveyed over 500 instagram users and interviewed 20 in an attempt to understand whether the feature was successful and what users truly want from it! the article is called 'Everyone Has Too Many Friends Online' :) Out this week! Join us Sunday! https://luma.com/1s0rhny7 organized with Bourree Lam !