https://open.mozilla.org/letter/ Mozilla Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness October 31, 2023 We are at a critical juncture in AI governance. To mitigate current and future harms from AI systems, we need to embrace openness, transparency, and broad access. This needs to be a global priority. Yes, openly available models come with risks and vulnerabilities -- AI models can be abused by malicious actors or deployed by ill-equipped developers. However, we have seen time and time again that the same holds true for proprietary technologies -- and that increasing public access and scrutiny makes technology safer, not more dangerous. The idea that tight and proprietary control of foundational AI models is the only path to protecting us from society-scale harm is naive at best, dangerous at worst. Further, history shows us that quickly rushing towards the wrong kind of regulation can lead to concentrations of power in ways that hurt competition and innovation. Open models can inform an open debate and improve policy making. If our objectives are safety, security and accountability, then openness and transparency are essential ingredients to get us there. We are in the midst of a dynamic discourse about what 'open' signifies in the AI era. This important debate should not slow us down. Rather, it should speed us up, encouraging us to experiment, learn and develop new ways to leverage openness in a race to AI safety. We need to invest in a spectrum of approaches -- from open source to open science -- that can serve as the bedrock for: A. Accelerating the understanding of AI capabilities risks and harms by enabling independent research, collaboration and knowledge sharing. B. Increasing public scrutiny and accountability by helping regulators adopt tools to monitor large scale AI systems. C. Lowering the barriers to entry for new players focused on creating responsible AI. As signatories to this letter, we are a diverse group -- scientists, policymakers, engineers, activists, entrepreneurs, educators and journalists. We represent different, and sometimes divergent, perspectives, including different views on how open source AI should be managed and released. However, there is one thing we strongly agree on: open, responsible and transparent approaches will be critical to keeping us safe and secure in the AI era. When it comes to AI safety and security, openness is an antidote, not a poison. Share on Mastodon Share on X Add your signature Your full name [ ] Email address (professional) [ ] Job title [ ] Affiliation [ ] By submitting this form you agree to Mozilla handling your information as explained in this privacy notice. Sign the letter 158 signatures Signatories(in order of signing) 1. Camille Francois, Columbia University 2. Mark Surman, Mozilla 3. Deborah Raji, UC Berkeley 4. Maria Ressa, Rappler, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate 5. Stella Biderman, EleutherAI 6. Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study 7. Arthur Mensch, MistralAI 8. Marietje Schaake, Stanford University 9. Abeba Birhane, Mozilla Fellow 10. Bruce Schneier, Berkman Center 11. Mitchell Baker, Mozilla 12. Bruno Sportisse, INRIA 13. Anne Bouverot, Ecole Normale Superieure 14. Alexandra Reeve Givens, CDT 15. Cedric O, MistralAI 16. Andrew Ng, AI Fund 17. Yann Lecun, Meta 18. Jean-Noel Barrot, Minister for Digital Affairs, France 19. Amba Kak, AI Now 20. Joy Buolamwini, Algorithmic Justice League 21. Julien Chaumond, Hugging Face 22. Brian Behlendorf, Linux Foundation 23. Eric Von Hippel, MIT Sloane 24. Moez Draief, Mozilla.ai 25. Pelonomi Moiloa, LelapaAI 26. Philippe Beaudoin, Waverly 27. Raffi Krikorian, Technically Optimistic 28. Audrey Tang, Minister of Digital Affairs, Taiwan 29. Jimmy Wales, Wikimedia Foundation 30. Krishna Gade, Fiddler AI 31. John Borthwick, Betaworks 32. Karim Lakhani, Harvard Business School 33. Stefano Maffulli, Open Source Initiative 34. Arvind Narayanan, Princeton University 35. Aviya Skowron, EleutherAI 36. Catherine Stihler, Creative Commons 37. Nabiha Syed, The Markup 38. Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media 39. Nicole Wong, Former Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer 40. Irina Rish, Mila - Quebec AI Institute 41. Mohamed Nanabhay, Mozilla Ventures 42. J. Bob Alotta, Mozilla 43. Imo Udom, Mozilla 44. Ayah Bdeir, Mozilla 45. Blake Richards, McGill/Mila 46. Andrea Renda, CEPS 47. Jenia Jitsev, LAION/Juelich Supercomputing Center & Helmholtz Research Center Juelich 48. Charles Gorintin, MistralAI 49. Daniel J. Beutel, Flower Labs 50. Nicholas Lane, Flower Labs 51. Taner Topal, Flower Labs 52. Aaron Gokaslan, Cornell University 53. Shayne Longpre, MIT 54. Luca Soldaini, Allen Institute for AI 55. Joelle Pineau, Meta 56. Michiel van de Panne, University of British Columbia 57. Nawar Alsafar, Bytez 58. Holly Peck, Bytez Inc 59. Susan Hendrickson, Harvard University 60. Sharad Sharma, iSPIRT Foundation 61. Andy Stepanian, The Sparrow Project 62. Paul Keller, Open Future 63. Goran Marby, Ybram Consulting 64. Huu Nguyen, Ontocord.ai; LAION.ai 65. Mike Bracken, Public Digital 66. Elaheh Ahmadi, Themis AI 67. Umakant Soni, AI Foundry, ART Venture Fund 68. Saoud Khalifah, Mozilla 69. Irene Solaiman, Hugging Face 70. Merouane Debbah, Khalifah University 71. Felix Reda, Former Member of the European Parliament 72. Brett Solomon, Access Now 73. David Morar, Open Technology Institute 74. Frederick Douzet, IFG - GEODE, Universite Paris 8 75. Yacine Jernite, Hugging Face 76. Arnav Arora, University of Copenhagen 77. Bharath Ramsundar, Industry 78. Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University 79. Manlio De Domenico, University of Padua 80. Abhiram Kandiyana, University of South Florida 81. Chris Lengerich, Context Fund 82. Nantas Nardelli, Carbon Re 83. Sarah Kiden, Northumbria University 84. Artur Garcez, City, University of London 85. Brian Mills Jr, OpenSourceSoftware.eth 86. Adnan Masood, PhD., UST, Stanford Visiting Scholar, Microsoft Regional Director 87. Johannes Burr, Deutsche Bahn 88. Ganesh Kumar, Ex-Meta 89. Diamond Bishop, Augmend AI 90. Luis Capelo, Modal Labs 91. Vishal Burman, InSyncAI 92. Ludovic Huraux, Wingmate 93. Robert Toth, ThetaTech.ai 94. Siddharth Agrawal, Motorola Solutions 95. Yury Leonychev, Intellics K.K. 96. Ehud Lamm, Tel Aviv University 97. Rinat Shaykhutdinov, Exabyte 98. Edouard Reinach, Trampoline AI 99. Yasin Schroeder, Bildbrauerei GmbH 100. Lea Gimpel, Digital Public Goods Alliance 101. Haiping Lu, University of Sheffield 102. Phil Lopes, Lusofona University 103. Lily Clifford, Rime Labs 104. Nuno Goncalves, IST 105. Derek Slater, Proteus Strategies 106. Jonathan Larkin, Columbia University 107. Xiaolin Ge, Hybrid Algorithms LLC 108. Kabir Mohammed, CPrompt AI 109. Karen Ullrich, Meta AI 110. yves jacquier, Ubisoft 111. Kartik Ayyar, Roblox 112. Tim Scarfe, Machine Learning Street Talk 113. Adeel Zaman, Aquila 114. Jade Abbott, Lelapa AI 115. Tim van Erven, University of Amsterdam 116. Richard Kelley, Nevada Autonomous 117. Eugen Hotaj, Meta 118. Alan Mackworth, Computer Science, UBC 119. Ruthvik Reddy, SL Employee 120. Andy Walters, Lexii.ai 121. Jeffrey Silverman, Mozilla 122. Furkan Uzumcu, Autodesk 123. Macduff Hughes, Google 124. Chetanya Rastogi, Stanford 125. Christina Lang, Mozilla 126. Ife Adebara, University of British Columbia 127. Martin Laprise, Hectiq AI 128. Mike Conley, Mozilla 129. Elvis Saravia, DAIR.AI 130. Nicholas von Beroldingen, ENPLAN 131. David Cabo, Fundacion Civio 132. Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Open Humans Foundation 133. Richard Dartois, Mars Incorporated 134. Matthew Guzdial, University of Alberta 135. Christian Szegedy, xAI 136. Yadava Aryal, Consultant 137. Adnan Durresi, Indiana University Indianapolis 138. Shaji Sebastian, Independent 139. Peter Prescott, 90 Percent of Everything 140. Nikolaj Groeneweg, La French Tech 141. Masayo Nobe, Mozilla 142. Adam Clark, Anu 143. Aaron Gokaslan, Cornell University 144. Vikash Sehwag, Sony AI 145. Javier de la Rosa, National Library of Norway 146. Martin Andrews, Red Dragon AI 147. Jan Lukavsky, Freelance 148. John Cook, Alignment Lab AI 149. Ida Momennejad, Microsoft research 150. Radouane Oudrhiri, Systonomy 151. Matthew Douglas, PERQ 152. Aleks Jakulin, Katalys 153. Nirmal Patel Playpower Labs 154. Hugh Molotsi, Mozilla 155. Cristina Giannone, Almawave spa 156. Linda Griffin, Mozilla 157. Jean-Yves Lemoine, KIDOMA 158. Benedito Alberto Macedo, CESAR - Centro de Estudos e Sistemas Avancados do Recife Mozilla * Website Privacy Notice * Cookies * Legal * Community Participation Guidelines Visit Mozilla Corporation's not-for-profit parent, the Mozilla Foundation. Portions of this content are (c)1998-2023 by individual mozilla.org contributors. Content available under a Creative Commons license.