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Emma Irwin

New CHAOSS AI Alignment Working Group

I'm really interested in understanding how the work of CHAOSS (Community Health Analytics in Open Source Software) can be applied to the efforts around AI alignment/safety. AI alignment is the effort to design Artificial Intelligence systems so their goals, behaviors, and decisions are consistent with human values

What do YOU mean by open source AI?

What do YOU mean by open source AI?

How OSPOs can drive alignment around meaning for openness and AI Ana Jiménez Santamaría’s blog post How Open Source Program Offices Make OSS and AI Work did a great job of speaking to to the ways in which OSPOs can help organizations navigate AI risks. I also believe OSPOs

Can coding assistants make a TPMs life easier? 9 Hours of Misery and Hope

Can coding assistants make a TPMs life easier? 9 Hours of Misery and Hope

The Technical Program Manager role require a strong mix of business skills including: business analyst, software development, project and people managers. We hold a lot together, but also depend on engineers and designers to prototype and build solutions. This means we're often waiting for the time of those

Helping Employees Build the Case for Open Source Contribution

Helping Employees Build the Case for Open Source Contribution

The career benefits of open source contribution are well-established. The business value for companies is also well known. However, I have noticed a significant challenge over the years: employee at many technical companies (even those with brand identity tied to open technologies) struggle to secure leadership approval for their

The best time to create a moderation plan is before launching your OSS project. The second best time is now.

The best time to create a moderation plan is before launching your OSS project. The second best time is now.

Moderation is the heart of open source capability - the success of which drives critical outcomes for security, sustainability and innovation. The lack of which can cause significant harm to projects and people.

Alignment with who? How AI safety can build on open source scaffolding

Alignment with who? How AI safety can build on open source scaffolding

This past week, I listened to a very interesting (and at times scary) podcast interview with Daniel Kokotajlo, an AI safety researcher and former Open AI employee. I was very interested to learn about 'alignment' . Alignment in AI, is the term used to describe the challenging of ensuring

Open collaboration strategy (now with AI prompts)

Back when the wonderful Carol Smith and I were part of Microsoft's Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), we built this simple resource to help those new to open collaboration, or revisiting their approaches - think creatively, realistically, and tactically about their goals. Each of the six steps came from

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