For the past six months, the Columbia Institute of Global Politics and Mozilla have been working with leading AI scholars and practitioners to create a framework on openness and AI. 

The Jervis conference highlighted the intricate balance between the necessity of government secrecy for national security and the democratic imperative for transparency, as well as the role of Artificial Intelligence in managing sensitive information and the urgency for reform in classification systems to uphold accountability and democratic resilience.

IGP brought together a pair of distinguished minds for a wide-ranging conversation on the history of political, social, and technological revolutions and some commentary on our current revolutionary age.

The IGP roundtable covered topics of artificial intelligence and its implications for geopolitics and national security.

IGP lecture considers impact on women and society — including the increasing targeting of students in high schools and even middle schools.

On February 29, Mozilla and the Columbia Institute of Global Politics brought together over 40 leading scholars and practitioners working on openness and AI. These individuals — spanning prominent open source AI startups and companies, non-profit AI labs, and civil society organizations — focused on exploring what “open” should mean in the AI era.

Research effort aims to map the state of the art with respect to open-source tooling and identify concrete pathways towards open, sustainable, interoperable, and scalable tools.

AI Democracy Projects convened a panel of experts for discussion, followed by a workshop aimed at measuring the performance of chatbots and other AI tools that provide information to the public.

A Policy Roundtable with Sir Stephen Lovegrove, and an IGP Carnegie Distinguished Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Center on Global Energy Policy (CGEP) covering a diverse range of policy issues, ranging from climate change, and defense to the global energy transition.