AI and the Right To Learn on an Open Internet: A Conversation Convened by Common Crawl Foundation and Professor Jeff Jarvis
AI & The Right to Learn on an Open Internet
A Conversation Convened by Common Crawl Foundation and Professor Jeff Jarvis
Date: April 30, 2024
The Common Crawl Foundation is convening a gathering of diverse stakeholders from the Publisher and AI communities, including researchers, creators, critics, policy makers, and journalists. The purpose of this meeting is to explore the emergence of AI from their unique perspectives, focusing on several key topics:
What’s at stake for the open internet?
AI industry perspective
Is model training fair use? And what is fair use anyways these days?
Risks to the open internet
Smart uses of AI in journalism
Business models and solutions
Demo room: smart use cases
We hope this event fosters understanding among each of these groups, set against the backdrop of the Open Internet we all enjoy today.
Hosts:
Professor Jeff Jarvis
Rich Skrenta, Common Crawl Foundation
Mike Masnick, Techdirt
Rebecca Weiss
Welcome Remarks from Craig Newmark
Agenda (subject to change):
9:00am Registration Opens
9:30am Welcome Remarks with Professor Jeff Jarvis, Craig Newmark, Gil Elbaz, and Rich Skrenta
10:00am Firestarters by Mike Masnick, Akshay Bhushan, Gard Steiro, Marjorie Velázquez, Joshua Tucker, and Deon Nicholas.
10:45am Break
11:15am Panel on the market implications of the fair use dialogue with Dr. Sherry Marcus, Glenn Otis Brown, and Hugh Marbury. Moderated by Ramyani Basu.
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm Panel on the risks to the open internet with Cara Gagliano, Michael Brawer, Richard Gingras, and Michael Weinberg. Moderated by Mike Masnick.
1:45pm Panel on the smart uses of AI in journalism with Gard Steiro, Gina Chua, Kevin Delaney, and Nikita Joy. Moderated by Professor Jeff Jarvis.
2:30pm Panel on business models and solutions with Rebecca Weiss, Craig Peters, Kunal Gosar, and Andrew Spittle. Moderated by Parag Agarwal.
3:15pm Startup Demos & Break
4:00pm Recap & Group Discussion
4:30pm Mixer
Thank you to our sponsors from Kearney, Tola Capital, and CCIA!
Attendees for this event include: Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Automattic, Columbia, MIT, NYU, Cornell, Princeton, U Wash, Allen Institute, Wikimedia, EFF, Creative Commons, Mozilla, MLCommons, Poolside, Aleph-Alpha, Internet Archive, AP, Getty Images, Schibsted, Gannett, News Corp, NPR, Paramount, Blackrock, JP Morgan, Kearney, Tech NYC, CCIA, Tola Capital, Betaworks, investors, startups, and others.