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Camille François
@camillefrancois.bsky.social
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Professor, Columbia University School of Int'l & Public Affairs. Tech Exec, previously w/ Graphika, Niantic, Google. I work on online trust, safety and innovation. I’ve been called "most optimistic person looking at the darkest corners of the Internet" :) .. more

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Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social · Mar 20
Thank you for your support, Stefano!

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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · Feb 13
Robust Open Online Safety Tools is a go!🚀

Myself, @yann-lecun.bsky.social, Eric Schmidt & @camillefrancois.bsky.social did the roost.tools honours at the #AIActionSummit.🐓

Let’s run a “horizontal race” to open-source AI safety — together.🫂

Learn more via my talk with @nxthompson.bsky.social .

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · Feb 11
At at time when the very idea of content moderation is under assault, I wrote about an effort that gives me hope: a $27 million project to transform trust and safety with open-source tools in the same way that open source transformed cybersecurity www.platformer.news/roost-open-s...
Clint Smith felt that need acutely. Smith is the chief legal officer of Discord, which had been a Smyte customer before it shut down. Suddenly, the company had to build its own safety stack from scratch. “The things we needed to build had already been built by Snap, Reddit, and other companies,” Smith said. “But all of them were proprietary implementations done by those companies’ engineering teams. We asked ourselves, why can’t we have a common set of tools?”

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Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social · Feb 10
Merci les Trekkies 📻❣️

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ROOST @roost.tools · Feb 10
From our friends at @mozilla.org, "ROOST is building, open sourcing and maintaining modular building blocks for AI safety, and offering hands-on support by technical experts to enable organizations of all sizes to build and use AI responsibly."

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ROOST: open source AI safety for everyone | The Mozilla Blog
Today we want to point to one of the most exciting announcements at the Paris AI summit: the launch of ROOST, a new nonprofit to build AI safety tools
blog.mozilla.org

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Center for Democracy & Technology @cdt.org · Feb 10
Breaking from the AI Action Summit in Paris: The Robust Online Safety Tooling (ROOST) initiative launches today to help platforms—especially smaller and decentralized ones—access the trust & safety tools they need. CDT is proud to partner on this effort.
www.cdt.org/insights...
CDT Celebrates the Launch of the Open Source Tooling Initiative ROOST as a step towards Open and Collaborative Trust & Safety Investment
Trust & Safety teams need robust tools to keep users and communities safe online, but building these tools is often costly, time consuming, and requires technical expertise that not all platforms have. This is particularly so for small platforms, non-profit platforms, and those with decentralized infrastructure. Today at the AI Action Summit in Paris, the […]
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ROOST @roost.tools · Feb 10
AND WE'RE HATCHED!

ROOST launches at the #ParisAIActionSummit, bringing together tech companies and philanthropies to deliver free, open-source safety tools. Join us 👉 roost.tools
a 2d graphic of a large egg shell broken in half, with the ROOST logo emerging from the shell. Logo is a minimal graphic of a bird on a box

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Yacine Jernite @yjernite.bsky.social · Feb 10
Congrats to the entire @roost-tools.bsky.social team for their successful launch!
It's been fantastic to see this project take shape, open tools are very much needed if we're to develop technology that is safer for all - glad to be a partner with @hf.co 🤗
huggingface.co/blog/yjernit...
ROOST: Safety Tooling needs Open Tech🐓🤗
A Blog post by Yacine Jernite on Hugging Face
huggingface.co

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Feb 5
On Thursday, Feb 20 @ 1 pm ET, Lama Ahmad, @camillefrancois.bsky.social, Tarleton Gillespie, @briana-v.bsky.social, and @borhane.bsky.social will examine red-teaming’s place in the evolving landscape of genAI evaluation and governance. RSVP and join us online! datasociety.net/events/red-t...
Text on a blue background with the details of the Red-Teaming Generative AI Harm event on February 20.

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Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social · Nov 27
« Happily, these factors aren’t just liquefying the ground below Big Tech’s dominance. They’re also powering bold visions for alternatives that stop tinkering at the edges of the monopoly tech paradigm, and work to design + build actually democratic, independent,open & transparent tech. Imagine! » 🥂

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · Nov 26
I wrote a little end of year manifestation for you'all. MAY IT EVER BE THUS!

www.wired.com/story/the-be...
The Beginning of the End of Big Tech
From politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have the chance to build something open and trustworthy.
www.wired.com

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Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social · Nov 26
Thank you so much for spending that day with us, Leon! 🙏🏼

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Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social · Nov 25
📻 Excited to be moderating a conversation tonight with @audreyt.org and @eli.bsky.social on Reshaping Social Media for the Public Good!

Feel free to join along if you're in New York:

events.columbia.edu/cal/event/ev...

ps. What a fitting first post for this profile, hehe 🤗
Reshaping Social Media for the Public Good
<p><em>How can we reshape social media to be a more powerful force for good? What kinds of digital spaces give rise to healthy communities and civic trust?</em></p> <p>Join leading experts from around...
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Camille François @camillefrancois.bsky.social · Nov 25
Thank you so much @nouhadziri.bsky.social for leading this work, and for joining the working group of the Columbia Convening on Safety and Openness in AI ❣️