Mozilla’s AI Funding Principles: Open-Source Building Blocks for Philanthropy

If philanthropy wants to push AI in a better direction, now is the time.

Today, Mozilla is publishing its AI Funding Principles — institutional lessons learned from five years and $75 million of trustworthy AI grantmaking around the globe.

While we had long planned to publish these at the close of 2023, releasing them at this moment now feels serendipitous. Discussions and debates about AI — how to build it, how to regulate it, how to fund it — have …