Mallory is heading to India later this month to kick off something we’ve been building toward for a while: the first in a global series on AI and the social web.
Alongside the AI Impact Summit in Delhi, SWF is holding space for dialogue among a focused group to dig into what comes next as AI becomes agentic and social systems become protocol-based. Hosted by the Observer Research Foundation, our core organizational partners for the event include Project Liberty Institute, Public AI and Modal Foundation.
We’re bringing together people who build, govern, research, and challenge digital infrastructure to get to the heart of the real technical, economic, and governance tradeoffs across open social protocols: ActivityPub, AT Protocol, and DSNP.
AI systems are increasingly shaping how information is created, ranked, moderated, and governed online. At the same time, if open social protocols are to be viable alternatives to centralized platforms, we must anticipate risks and ensure immunity to the same concentrations of power in the age of AI.
We’re curious about the emerging approaches to context, consent, and accountability when AI enters our feeds and slides into our DMs. In Delhi, we hope to surface shared priorities, hard constraints, and concrete next steps, and to lay the groundwork for ongoing protocol governance work that extends well beyond one protocol and this initial meeting.
Express your interest in joining us on 20 February at 11 am IST! https://luma.com/25chdoy8
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