ROOST news – The ROOST Initiative Launched at the Paris AI Summit to Secure AI with Open-Source Tools

The summit’s focus is on making AI open, inclusive, transparent, ethical, safe, secure, and trustworthy.

According to Amanda Brock, CEO of OpenUK, the launch is part of a broader commitment to open source technology, that is critical to Europe: “From the get-go, as we would expect in Macron’s France, unlike past summits, the AI Action Summit has referenced open source and the open source community. Its outputs will be grounded in three main principles of science, solutions - focusing on open AI models- and policy standards.”

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ROOST will provide free, open-source, and easy-to-use tools to detect, review, and report child sexual abuse material (CSAM). It will also use large language models (LLMs) to improve safety and make safety technologies easier to use and more accessible.

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ROOST’s technical teams will offer hands-on support to help organizations add strong safety measures while still allowing them to innovate.

Dr Laura Gilbert, OpenUK Advisory Board, asserts that when we make AI tools and safety frameworks open source, we create a global laboratory for innovation that simultaneously builds trust through transparency. “This approach may allow us to maintain the rapid pace of AI advancement whilst helping to ensure appropriate safeguards are in place and well understood. The technology immense potential can only be properly realized when development and safety protocols are accessible to all, enabling collaborative governance that transcends national boundaries.”

ROOST is supported by a wide range of partners from AI, philanthropy, academia, open source, child safety, and fighting violent extremism. So far, ROOST has raised over $27 million for its first four years from top philanthropies and tech companies. It plans to grow faster and offer its tools to as many organizations as possible.