The Institute for Progress (IFP), a non-partisan U.S. think tank focused on innovation policy, announced a new project that highlights responses to the Trump Administration’s request for public comment on what should be included in a national “AI Action Plan.” OSI’s comment with the Apereo Foundation was one of 33 comments highlighted in an initial release of IFP’s database. Last week, the White House made the 10,068 comments public and IFP updated their database with analysis of all of the submissions. Three recommendations from OSI and Apereo’s comment are described in the database:
- Encourage the development and adoption of Open Source AI
- Establish a common definition of Open Source AI
- Promote a data commons approach for AI development
The think tank used a variety of tools to analyze the public comments and extract specific recommendations. The recommendations are organized into 20 topics including Export Controls, Infrastructure, Security, Open Source, and Standards & Regulations. The Open Source category has 156 recommendations from 123 organizations/businesses. The database is a helpful resource that anyone can use to explore submissions.
Other recommendations of note highlighted by IFP include:
- Increase government use of Open Source AI (Mozilla)
- Signal government support for Open Source AI (a16z)
- Allocate public computing resources for Open Source AI (Hugging Face)
- Preserve and promote open model development (Center for Democracy & Technology)
- Promote open innovation as a strategic advantage (Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI)
- Support transparency in AI procurement, development and use (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
OSI thanks IFP for recognizing Open Source as an important theme in the AI Action Plan recommendations and looks forward to working with the administration and other organizations on these issues.