On 10 November 2023, 17:30-18:30 CET, Women in AI Austria hosted a panel discussion with Zuzanna Warso (Open Future), Jeannette Gorzala (European AI Forum, AI Austria) and Alexander Baratsits (Creative Commons Austria, cba.media), moderated by Katja Mayer(University of Vienna), to go deeper into the challenges and opportunities of open source AI. The discussion centred around the three themes of current regulatory developments around open source AI, the challenges around open washing, and finally, some best practices and positive outlooks for this developing field.

In this updated version of the original briefing, we summarise some of the main discussion points brought up by the panelists and relate them to the wider concerns of open source AI. A recording of the video will be made available shortly.