Mozilla announced on its blog the start of the European AI Fund, a group of national, regional and international foundations in Europe that are dedicated to using their resources — financial and otherwise — to strengthen civil society. Hosted by the Network of European Foundations, the fund will seek to deepen the pool of experts across Europe who have the tools, capacity and know-how to catalogue and monitor the social and political impact of AI and data driven interventions — and hold them to account.
The project is backed by the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, King Baudouin Foundation, Luminate, Mozilla, Oak Foundation, Open Society Foundations and Stiftung Mercator.
In its first step, the fund will launch with a EUR 1 million open call for funding, open until 1 November. Mozilla said the aim is to build the capacity of those who already work on AI and Automated Decision Making (ADM). At the same time, it wants to bring in new civil society actors to the debate, especially those who haven’t worked on issues relating to AI yet, but whose domain of work is affected by AI.
