The AI Commons

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Kickoff Focus (December 2025)

Who's Here?

Researchers, archivists, legal scholars, engineers, open-source leaders, and public-interest technologists working on: provenance  ·  licensing  · dataset governance  · distributed training  · archival preservation  · open web infrastructure

Opening

Intention setting & project updates

State of the Union

  • Crawlers, AI & the future of the open web
  • Libraries & archives
  • Copyright policy, legal cases, Q4 2025
  • Frontier models, SLMs & the role of large datasets

Breakouts / Working Groups

Cross-group deep dives aligned with the three challenges

  • Legal MVP  License contours · jurisdictions · timeline · artifacts
  • Grounding Corpus Canon scope · editorial process · versioning · host
  • Public-Domain Training Pilot  Datasets · baselines · evals · release plan

We (the commons) Are Not

anti-state or anti-market. 

it's more of a third lane of sovereignty..  the community that depends on the thing that governs the thing


just a resource. 

we are the relationships between people and the things they’re responsible for.


just an idea. 

commons require

  • rules of engagement (licenses, protocols)
  • mechanisms of consent
  • transparent provenance
  • shared infrastructure
  • ways to resolve conflict and distribute benefit



We (the commons) Are

an attractor. 

Everything that relies on shared knowledge, contribution, or infrastructure eventually gravitates toward a commons unless distorted by power asymmetry.


cumulative. 

Individual actions, creations, and behaviors compound — and must be safeguarded so they are not used against the community that produced them.


a network. 

People and projects designing the legal, technical, and governance foundations needed for a healthy, future-proof AI commons.


Modern AI is built on shared knowledge, shared data, shared culture..  a commons.
This initiative gives that commons structure, governance, and agency.

Join Us

Reach out if you're interested in getting involved (join our kickoff, community calls, meetups, etc)

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