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Joint Statement on AI Safety and Openness

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:

  1. Accelerating the understanding of AI capabilities risks and harms by enabling independent research, collaboration and knowledge sharing.
  2. Increasing public scrutiny and accountability by helping regulators adopt tools to monitor large scale AI systems.
  3. 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.

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Signatories(in order of signing)

  1. Camille François, 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 Supérieure
  14. Alexandra Reeve Givens, CDT
  15. Cedric O, MistralAI
  16. Andrew Ng, AI Fund
  17. Yann Lecun, Meta
  18. Jean-Noël 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 Sloan School of Business
  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. Merouane Debbah, Khalifah University
  70. Felix Reda, Former Member of the European Parliament
  71. Brett Solomon, Access Now
  72. David Morar, Open Technology Institute
  73. Frédérick Douzet, IFG - GEODE, Université Paris 8
  74. Yacine Jernite, Hugging Face
  75. Anjney Midha, A16z
  76. Hessie Jones, Laion
  77. Jeffrey McGregor, Truepic Inc
  78. Victor Storchan, Mozilla.ai
  79. Dan Brown, Mozilla
  80. Rupa Shah, Mozilla
  81. Marc Perreault, Mozilla
  82. Lainie DeCoursy, Mozilla
  83. Tarek El-Eter, Mozilla
  84. Yilun Zhang, Mozilla
  85. Francis Rousseaux, Expertise France
  86. Stefano Noferi, noze
  87. Stephen Hood, Mozilla
  88. Nils Goroll
  89. Bart De Witte, Hippo AI Foundation
  90. Pierre-Carl Langlais, OpSci
  91. Max von Thun, Open Markets Institute
  92. Aniket Maurya, Gradsflow
  93. Knut Jägersberg, Influmancers
  94. Koliwe Majama, Mozilla Foundation
  95. Brandi Geurkink, Mozilla
  96. Ted Underwood, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
  97. Daniel Lowd, University of Oregon
  98. Steve Jalim, Mozilla
  99. Audrey Hingle, Mozilla
  100. Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, Tech Global Institute
  101. Kushal Das, Sunet
  102. Jamie L Moxon
  103. Soc Virnyl Estela, Misamis University
  104. Angela Oduor Lungati, Ushahidi Inc
  105. Daniel Jeffries, Kentauros AI, Inc.
  106. Adam Bouhenguel, Tesserai
  107. Daniel Riek
  108. Lukas Haack, Technische Universität Dresden
  109. Sreekanth Mukku, Hippo AI
  110. Hailey Schoelkopf, EleutherAI
  111. Zuzanna Warso, Open Future
  112. Andrew Janco, University of Pennsylvania
  113. Francesco Vincenti, Sewer
  114. Pantelis Hadjipantelis, Capgemini UK
  115. Victor Gallego, Komorebi AI
  116. Matthías Dean, Queen Mary University of London
  117. Helen King-Turvey, Philanthropy Matters
  118. Prem Trivedi, Open Technology Institute
  119. Luis Alberto Muñoz< Ubando, Tec de Monterrey
  120. Mariya Davydova, Kentauros AI
  121. Nikolaj Van Omme, Funartech
  122. Jason Smith, Mozilla
  123. Mathieu Lapointe, Phar
  124. Orin Somewhere, Minerva Marketing
  125. Pablo Carrera Lorenzo, Teya
  126. Björn Plüster, University of Hamburg/LAION
  127. Matthew Miller, Fedora Project
  128. Kasia Odrozek, Mozilla
  129. Goran Maksimovski, Freelancer
  130. Geir Smestad, Self-employed
  131. Konrad Banachewicz, IKEA
  132. Andy Mauro, Storycraft.gg
  133. Matthew A Zeits
  134. Dario Gil, IBM
  135. Goran Nushkov, Loka
  136. Dhanya Sridhar, University of Montreal
  137. Jose Benitez Genes, Intuitivo
  138. Keegan McBride, Oxford Internet Institute
  139. Peter Tanski, Capital One
  140. Rahul Pandey, Adidas
  141. Janne Elvelid, Meta
  142. Christina Montgomery, IBM
  143. Barney Hussey-Yeo, Cleo AI
  144. Alexander Saunders, ENGIE
  145. Nadim Farhat, University of Pittsburgh
  146. Sumved Shami, Visdam Labs
  147. Jacob Keisling, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois
  148. Paul Dix, InfluxData
  149. Bill Xing, Groq Inc
  150. Xhoni Shollaj, National University of Singapore
  151. Aviral Shukla, Devot.AI
  152. Cezary Dołęga, Neurosoft
  153. Matthew Copple, Grand River Analytics LLC
  154. Theophile Gervet, Mistral AI
  155. Parvesh Rana, MDU
  156. Timur Ishmuratov, Amazon
  157. Eric Hartford, Convai
  158. Stephen M. Walker II, Klu.ai
  159. Laith Zumot, Nokia
  160. Mike Anderson, Ai Layer
  161. Shah Hossain, Pytho AI
  162. Nahid Alam, Cisco Meraki
  163. Nikolas Ciminelli, Tweak Commerce
  164. Mohammadmehdi Ataei, Autodesk, Inc
  165. Steve Neola, Scribd
  166. Germán Cabrera Martínez
  167. Bansafouan Abdelhalim, AEVA web
  168. Jamiu Idowu, Sahel AI
  169. Kevin Broløs, Abzu
  170. Cezary Dołęga, Neurosoft
  171. Michael Gold, School of Visual Arts
  172. Lionel Nganyewou Tidjon, CertKOR AI
  173. Jason R. Stevens, CFA Tincre
  174. Joan García Esquerdo, Science4Tech
  175. Jett Hollister
  176. Jeremy Tammik, Autodesk
  177. Emad Mostaque, Stability AI
  178. Saurabh Kumar, FORVIA Clean Mobility
  179. Bruno Lepri, Bruno Kessler Foundation
  180. Justin Chen, CVS Health
  181. Hammad Hamid, Pinchforth
  182. Ben Brooks, Stability AI
  183. Kaushik Bhatta, B3 Alliance, Inc.
  184. Namee Oberst, Ai Bloks
  185. Risman Adnan, Kalbe
  186. Rahul Yadav, Blockchain Labs
  187. Misha Denil, Google Deepmind
  188. Orville D. Hombrebueno, Nueva Vizcaya State University
  189. Johann Dreo, Institut Pasteur
  190. Felix Juefei Xu, GenAI, Meta
  191. Dakhilullah Muhazzib Darwisy, Samsung Research Institute Indonesia
  192. Julian Togelius, New York University
  193. Eason Suen, LRQA
  194. Kate Arthur, Digital Moment
  195. Ashwini Vaishnav, Govt of India
  196. Marek K. Zielinski, 10 Senses
  197. Joseph Spisak, Meta
  198. Ajay Arasanipalai, Descript
  199. Vlad Iliescu, NRGI
  200. Timothy Taylor, DeatosLabs
  201. Kari Noriy, Bournemouth University
  202. Mark Collier, OpenInfra Foundation
  203. Brian Granger, Amazon Web Services
  204. Ikboljon Sobirov, The University of Oxford
  205. Benedikt Fuchs, Rise GmbH & FlairNLP-Group (HTU Berlin)
  206. Milan Stankovic, Leadbay
  207. Lewis Tunstall, Hugging Face
  208. José Maria Pereira Rosa Correia Pombal, Unbabel
  209. Ushnish Sengupta, Mediatek Research/ University of Cambridge
  210. Gabriele Sarti, University of Groningen
  211. Aryan Kaul, Purdue University
  212. Dave Burke, waverly.social
  213. Suraj Parmar, SpassMed Inc.
  214. Joseph Marvin Imperial, University of Bath
  215. San Lee, SpassMed
  216. Dileep Jayamal, DSP Engineering PTE Ltd
  217. David Dworetzky, Colorado State University Global
  218. Anub Sinha, Opscale Technologies Private Limited
  219. Ramy Mounir, University of South Florida
  220. Adam Perold, Provenance AI
  221. Anthony Annunziata, IBM
  222. Michael Timothy Bennett, School of Computing, ANU
  223. Aaron Silvers, MakingBetter
  224. Bastiaan Beukeboom, Exigency
  225. Neil Christensen, Illinois State University
  226. Alexander Wuttke, LMU Munich
  227. Pierre Colombo, CentraleSupelec
  228. Kamen Brestnichki, Martian Lawyers Club
  229. Francesca Rossi, IBM
  230. Nicolas Dupont, Cyborg
  231. Eshban Suleman, TenX.ai
  232. Matt Hostetler, Amazon
  233. Ciro Nuñez, National University of Engineering, Peru
  234. Dustin Smuz, Divergent
  235. Davar Ardalan, TulipAI
  236. Kristian Ernst, DL
  237. Dr. Benedikt J. Wagner, City, University of London
  238. Andrew Marble, Willows AI
  239. Rob Figueiredo, MIT
  240. Tiago Maluta, Lemann Foundation
  241. Dylan Hadfield-Menell, MIT
  242. Chen Dan, SpassMed
  243. Tom Joy, Five
  244. Jordi Mas, Softcatalà
  245. Andrés Felipe Gutiérrez, Universidad de Antioquia
  246. Soumith Chintala, Meta
  247. Francisco Garcia, Roku
  248. Vinayagam Pillai, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
  249. Anshuman Suri, University of Virginia
  250. Nicolas Granatino, Andurance Ventures
  251. Ross Taylor, Papers with Code
  252. José Nuno Pinto da Fonseca Camacho Vieira, Fidelidade
  253. Vishal Goklani, METRICLE INC
  254. Oleksii Kuchaiev, NVIDIA
  255. Banghua Zhu, UC Berkeley
  256. Foivos I. Diakogiannis, Data61/CSIRO
  257. Mikhail Burtsev, LIMS
  258. James Morris, KnowledgeCity
  259. Jesús Sayols Lara, Amnesty International
  260. Anuj Ahooja, Flipboard
  261. Daniel Ritchie, Openness Advocate
  262. Juan Pino, Meta
  263. Antoine Bordes, Helsing
  264. Batuhan Aktaş, FirstBatch
  265. Ian Danforth, Alation, Inc.
  266. Akmal Bakar, Autodesk
  267. Dr. Suresh M, PhD, NITInnov Tech
  268. Nasim Rahaman, Mila - Québec AI Institute
  269. Iacopo Poli, LightOn
  270. Christopher Manning, Stanford University
  271. Jean-Luc Schellens, Students For Good
  272. Lasith Gunawardena, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Sri Lanka
  273. Ross Wightman, Hugging Face
  274. Tommy Ayala, Concordia University
  275. Eren Gölge, Coqui
  276. Sujith Pulikodan, V Labs
  277. Guillaume Sanchez, LightOn
  278. Deb RoyChowdhury, InfinyOn
  279. Serafim Batzoglou, Seer, Inc
  280. Arun Rao, UCLA
  281. Conor Sullivan, Lone Pine Games
  282. Eugene Yu Ji, The University of Chicago
  283. Djiby Sow, AI for All
  284. Hossein Hajipour, CISPA
  285. Kristin Skogen Lund, Schibsted, Mozilla Corporation Board member
  286. Seokhyun An, UNIST
  287. Thomas Dordonne, Open DataGen
  288. Tobias Weibel, Autodesk
  289. Melanie Mitchell, Santa Fe Institute
  290. Dmitry Nikolaev, Institute for Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart
  291. Johann-Peter, Hartmann Mayflower GmbH
  292. Daniel Lemire, Université du Québec (TELUQ)
  293. Suman Sapkota, NAAMII
  294. Gnandeep Moturi, Nucleus AI
  295. Arnav Arora, University of Copenhagen
  296. Bharath Ramsundar, Industry
  297. Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University
  298. Manlio De Domenico, University of Padua
  299. Abhiram Kandiyana, University of South Florida
  300. Chris Lengerich, Context Fund
  301. Nantas Nardelli, Carbon Re
  302. Sarah Kiden, Northumbria University
  303. Artur Garcez, City, University of London
  304. Brian Mills Jr, OpenSourceSoftware.eth
  305. Adnan Masood, PhD., UST, Stanford Visiting Scholar, Microsoft Regional Director
  306. Johannes Burr, Deutsche Bahn
  307. Ganesh Kumar, Ex-Meta
  308. Diamond Bishop, Augmend AI
  309. Luis Capelo, Modal Labs
  310. Vishal Burman, InSyncAI
  311. Ludovic Huraux, Wingmate
  312. Robert Toth, ThetaTech.ai
  313. Siddharth Agrawal, Motorola Solutions
  314. Yury Leonychev, Intellics K.K.
  315. Ehud Lamm, Tel Aviv University
  316. Rinat Shaykhutdinov, Exabyte
  317. Edouard Reinach, Trampoline AI
  318. Yasin Schroeder, Bildbrauerei GmbH
  319. Lea Gimpel, Digital Public Goods Alliance
  320. Haiping Lu, University of Sheffield
  321. Phil Lopes, Lusófona University
  322. Lily Clifford, Rime Labs
  323. Nuno Gonçalves, IST
  324. Derek Slater, Proteus Strategies
  325. Jonathan Larkin, Columbia University
  326. Xiaolin Ge, Hybrid Algorithms LLC
  327. Kabir Mohammed, CPrompt AI
  328. Karen Ullrich, Meta AI
  329. yves jacquier, Ubisoft
  330. Kartik Ayyar, Roblox
  331. Tim Scarfe, Machine Learning Street Talk
  332. Adeel Zaman, Aquila
  333. Jade Abbott, Lelapa AI
  334. Tim van Erven, University of Amsterdam
  335. Richard Kelley, Nevada Autonomous
  336. Eugen Hotaj, Meta
  337. Alan Mackworth, Computer Science, UBC
  338. Ruthvik Reddy, SL Employee
  339. Andy Walters, Lexii.ai
  340. Jeffrey Silverman, Mozilla
  341. Furkan Uzumcu, Autodesk
  342. Macduff Hughes, Google
  343. Chetanya Rastogi, Stanford
  344. Christina Lang, Mozilla
  345. Ife Adebara, University of British Columbia
  346. Martin Laprise, Hectiq AI
  347. Mike Conley, Mozilla
  348. Elvis Saravia, DAIR.AI
  349. Nicholas von Beroldingen, ENPLAN
  350. David Cabo, Fundación Civio
  351. Bastian Greshake Tzovaras, Open Humans Foundation
  352. Richard Dartois, Mars Incorporated
  353. Matthew Guzdial, University of Alberta
  354. Christian Szegedy, xAI
  355. Yadava Aryal, Consultant
  356. Adnan Durresi, Indiana University Indianapolis
  357. Shaji Sebastian, Independent
  358. Peter Prescott, 90 Percent of Everything
  359. Nikolaj Groeneweg, La French Tech
  360. Masayo Nobe, Mozilla
  361. Adam Clark, Anu
  362. Aaron Gokaslan, Cornell University
  363. Vikash Sehwag, Sony AI
  364. Javier de la Rosa, National Library of Norway
  365. Martin Andrews, Red Dragon AI
  366. Jan Lukavský, Freelance
  367. John Cook, Alignment Lab AI
  368. Ida Momennejad, Microsoft research
  369. Radouane Oudrhiri, Systonomy
  370. Matthew Douglas, PERQ
  371. Aleks Jakulin, Katalys
  372. Nirmal Patel Playpower Labs
  373. Hugh Molotsi, Mozilla
  374. Cristina Giannone, Almawave spa
  375. Linda Griffin, Mozilla
  376. Jean-Yves Lemoine, KIDOMA
  377. Benedito Alberto Macedo, CESAR - Centro de Estudos e Sistemas Avançados do Recife