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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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Latest posts by camillefrancois.bsky.social on Bluesky

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...

11.02.2025 19:50 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

An important project to keep an eye on #OpenSource #AI
Congrats @camillefrancois.bsky.social

12.02.2025 09:29 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Thank you for your support, Stefano!

20.03.2025 13:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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 .

13.02.2025 16:14 — 👍 36    🔁 10    💬 2    📌 0

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).

10.02.2025 19:04 — 👍 163    🔁 28    💬 8    📌 3

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.

10.02.2025 17:17 — 👍 374    🔁 78    💬 2069    📌 829
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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

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...

10.02.2025 16:37 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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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 […]

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...

10.02.2025 15:55 — 👍 16    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

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.

10.02.2025 14:59 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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ROOST: Safety Tooling needs Open Tech🐓🤗 A Blog post by Yacine Jernite on Hugging Face

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...

10.02.2025 13:48 — 👍 8    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

Merci les Trekkies 📻❣️

10.02.2025 17:17 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Text on a blue background with the details of the Red-Teaming Generative AI Harm event on February 20.

Text on a blue background with the details of the Red-Teaming Generative AI Harm event on February 20.

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...

05.02.2025 19:14 — 👍 20    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2

« 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! » 🥂

27.11.2024 14:28 — 👍 43    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much for spending that day with us, Leon! 🙏🏼

26.11.2024 14:04 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

📻 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 🤗

25.11.2024 16:43 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Thank you so much @nouhadziri.bsky.social for leading this work, and for joining the working group of the Columbia Convening on Safety and Openness in AI ❣️

25.11.2024 15:15 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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