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The EU’s AI Act and Foundation Models: The Final Stretch

The EU’s AI Act and Foundation Models: Considerations for the Final Stretch of Negotiations

The human decisions that shape generative AI: Who is accountable for what?

In this explainer, we tackle one of the most basic questions: What are some of the key moments of human decision-making in the development of generative AI products? This question forms the basis of our current research investigation at Mozilla to better understand the motivations and values that guide this development process.

Openness & AI: Fostering Innovation & Accountability in the EU’s AI Act

What is open source when it comes to AI? How should regulation treat open source to foster innovation without providing a pink slip to necessary regulatory compliance? What are the contours of the commercial deployment and corresponding liability in open source software?

This is not a System Card: Scrutinising Meta’s Transparency Announcements

On June 29, Meta announced transparency and research-related updates for Facebook and Instagram: more details on their ranking system for content in “Feed, Reels, Stories and other surfaces”, improvements to user controls of their feed, and tools for public interest research.

Advancing AI Accountability in the US

Last month, Mozilla submitted comments on AI accountability to the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), drawing on our experiences from five years of working on the question of what it takes to build trustworthy AI.

Today’s EU AI Act Vote Marks Progress, But Coming Months Are Crucial

As Mozilla has stated before, the AI Act has the potential to make AI across the EU more trustworthy — and the European Parliament vote today marks further progress toward robust safeguards against AI harms.

General Purpose AI Poses Serious Risks, Should Not Be Excluded From the EU’s AI Act

AI experts and leaders are calling upon EU policy makers to regulate general purpose AI (GPAI) across its life cycle and not exempt its original developers under the forthcoming EU AI Act.

Study Reveals AI Transparency is Rarely Prioritized Among Tech Builders

A Mozilla survey of developers, ML engineers about AI transparency shows limited motivation for prioritizing issues like ethical and legal compliance.

Action Recommended: How the Digital Services Act Addresses Platform Recommender Systems

While the DSA pays close attention to the algorithmic amplification of harmful content on online platforms, it's too early to celebrate.

Disrupting Data Governance: A Mozilla Guide for Reshaping the Data Economy

Research on regulations in U.S., Germany, India, and Kenya, explores alternative data management avenues for protecting and creating value with data, for example in reproductive health, public transportation, COVID-19 contact tracing, among others.

The Long Road to Redress: Mozilla’s Comments on the EU’s Proposal for an AI Liability Directive

We need the AI Liability Directive to offer a mechanism for redress, and ultimately justice. In this brief, we contextualize and provide recommendations on how it could be strengthened.

Mozilla Calls for Greater Oversight, Scrutiny, and User Control to Make Platforms' Recommender Systems More Responsible

Recommender systems are at the heart of many online services and influence millions of people each day. Yet they remain opaque and removed from public scrutiny...