Camille François
@camillefrancois.bsky.social
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" :)
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Massive fan of this project and very bull-ish on the huge impact its going to have over the long-run...congrats on the launch to everyone involved! @camillefrancois.bsky.social @elisugarman.bsky.social @dwillner.bsky.social @julietshen.bsky.social and a lot more...
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...
February 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Massive fan of this project and very bull-ish on the huge impact its going to have over the long-run...congrats on the launch to everyone involved! @camillefrancois.bsky.social @elisugarman.bsky.social @dwillner.bsky.social @julietshen.bsky.social and a lot more...
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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
ROOST launches at the #ParisAIActionSummit, bringing together tech companies and philanthropies to deliver free, open-source safety tools. Join us 👉 roost.tools
February 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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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 .
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 .
February 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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 .
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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This is very big news, a long time in the making... A consortium of companies/philanthropies and others building core open source tools for safety that many companies kept having to build from scratch (often badly).
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
ROOST launches at the #ParisAIActionSummit, bringing together tech companies and philanthropies to deliver free, open-source safety tools. Join us 👉 roost.tools
February 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
This is very big news, a long time in the making... A consortium of companies/philanthropies and others building core open source tools for safety that many companies kept having to build from scratch (often badly).
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Ensuring user safety at scale takes massive resources. That’s why we’re excited to partner with ROOST—helping smaller orgs enhance safety, meet regulations, and compete. More safety, more competition, more user choice.
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
ROOST launches at the #ParisAIActionSummit, bringing together tech companies and philanthropies to deliver free, open-source safety tools. Join us 👉 roost.tools
February 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Ensuring user safety at scale takes massive resources. That’s why we’re excited to partner with ROOST—helping smaller orgs enhance safety, meet regulations, and compete. More safety, more competition, more user choice.
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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."
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a...
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a...
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
February 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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."
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a...
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/a...
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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...
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 […]
www.cdt.org
February 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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...
www.cdt.org/insights...
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Proud that Project Liberty Institute is a founding partner of ROOST! Collaboration will ensure alignment in the critical area of trust and safety.
Institute fellow Audrey Tang and Team PLI (but not me this time!) are on the ground at the Paris AI Summit in support.
Institute fellow Audrey Tang and Team PLI (but not me this time!) are on the ground at the Paris AI Summit in support.
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
ROOST launches at the #ParisAIActionSummit, bringing together tech companies and philanthropies to deliver free, open-source safety tools. Join us 👉 roost.tools
February 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Proud that Project Liberty Institute is a founding partner of ROOST! Collaboration will ensure alignment in the critical area of trust and safety.
Institute fellow Audrey Tang and Team PLI (but not me this time!) are on the ground at the Paris AI Summit in support.
Institute fellow Audrey Tang and Team PLI (but not me this time!) are on the ground at the Paris AI Summit in support.
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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...
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
February 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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...
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...
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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...
February 5, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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...
« 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! » 🥂
I wrote a little end of year manifestation for you'all. MAY IT EVER BE THUS!
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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.
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November 27, 2024 at 2:28 PM
« 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! » 🥂
📻 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:
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ps. What a fitting first post for this profile, hehe 🤗
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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November 25, 2024 at 4:43 PM
📻 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 🤗
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 🤗