TU Wien DIGHUM

Sayeed Choudhury: “The Imperative of Openness in AI”

DIGHUM lecture with Sayeed Choudhury.

Speaker: Sayeed Choudhury (Carnegie Mellon Libraries, USA), Moderator: Helga Nowotny (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna)
Speaker: Sayeed Choudhury (Carnegie Mellon Libraries, USA), Moderator: Helga Nowotny (Complexity Science Hub, Vienna)

February 24th 2026

  • 17:00 – 18:00 CET
  • This is an online-only event.
    See description for details.

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About the Event

February 24, 2026
5:00 – 6:00 PM
(17:00) CEST

We are looking forward to seeing you:

Participate via Zoom (Password: 0dzqxqiy).
The talk will also be live-streamed and recorded on the DIGHUM YouTube Channel.

Abstract

In February 2024, Columbia University in the US co-hosted a workshop with Mozilla that resulted in a paper “Towards a Framework for Openness in Foundation Models: Proceedings from the Columbia Convening on Openness in Artificial Intelligence.” Using this framework, this talk will offer an update on developments related to openness in AI since February 2024, with an emphasis on the imperative to advance this framework and develop an open technology stack for AI. Such a stack will be important to advance human-centered, responsible, transparent, and participatory AI.This topic is particularly important in the European context, given the EU AI Act and increasing calls for digital sovereignty. Taking a global perspective, the talk will also highlight the difference between sovereignty and agency, particularly as it relates to nations without resources to build their own foundation models.

Slides

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Video

Recording will be available after the lecture.