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The AI Act & Foundation Models: From gridlock to go-ahead?

It might appear that we’re at an impasse when it comes to regulating foundation models in the AI Act — in fact, this could put the entire AI Act at risk. But we believe there’s a middle ground for all sides to come to an agreement.

IRL podcast: Putting people over profit in AI

Mozilla's multi award winning podcast, IRL: Online Life is Real Life, returns for a seventh season.

Season 7 of Mozilla’s Podcast, IRL, Interrogates the Risks and Rewards of AI

The theme of this year's Webby Award-winning IRL podcast is how to put people over profit in artificial intelligence. Episodes spotlight people putting ideas on how to build more trustworthy AI into practice

Listen to the trailer: Season 7 of Mozilla’s IRL podcast

Mozilla's multi award winning podcast, IRL, is back for a seventh season, all about putting people over profit in AI. Listen to the trailer.

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.