Public AI

I am interested in AI infrastructure that serves public purposes and can be governed by the people.

Key References

  1. 2026 · PaperIf open source is to win, it must go publicICML
  2. 2025 · WorkshopCanada as a Champion for Public AI: Data, Compute and Open Source Infrastructure for Economic Growth and Inclusive Innovationauthor preprint

More work in this topic

A not-totally-exhaustive (because there’s a lot of overlap between these themes) list of “outputs” that meet this theme.

2026May 2026PanelPanel: Designing Collective Technology GovernanceCPDP.ai 2026
2026Apr 2026Blog"People First" Policy Ideas that Complement Each Other (through better data flow)Data Leverage
2025Sep 2025MediaShould the public sector build its own AI?The Financial Times
2025Jul 2025TalkData and Public AITPC25
2025Jun 2025PodcastAI as a Public Good with Jake Hirsch-Allen and Nicholas VincentBrainTrainr Podcast
2025Apr 2025BlogPublic AI, Data Appraisal, and Data DebatesData Leverage
2025Mar 2025TalkCanada as Champion for Public AIMcMaster Internet Policy Lab
2025Mar 2025TalkEmerging Concerns with the Generative AI Data Paradigm (and how academic research and “Public AI” can help)UBC NLP
2025Mar 2025Other paperAI for Just Work: Constructing Diverse Imaginations of AI beyond "Replacing Humans"arXiv preprint
2024Mar 2024PaperPika: Empowering Non-Programmers to Author Executable Governance Policies in Online CommunitiesACM CHI
2024Feb 2024TalkA New Grand Data Bargain for Public Interest AIDigital Democracies Institute Spring Speaker Series
2023Nov 2023WorkshopAn Alternative to Regulation: The Case for Public AIRegML 2023 Workshop @ NeurIPS 2023