John Palfrey

And in fact, she was let go by Google quite famously.

Yes.

And she is among those who have been in leading positions in tech companies who have emerged as the most powerful critics.

Anyway, what Timmy did was she set up a distributed, what's in the name, AI research network that actually is global.

And it is people who have amazing expertise on a range of topics who have stood up something that is a research network of a different sort that is absolutely bringing some of the most information, most powerful information and insights

and knowledge forward about this set of technologies.

And so, among other things, they're working on the topic of linguistic diversity.

So how do you ensure that the use of this doesn't just make English the lingua franca for the history of the world, right?

In fact, it has huge power.

in terms of preserving local knowledge as well as local languages around the world.

But it doesn't always pay, right?

That's not something that these companies are always going to be able to do.

So to me, there's been a powerful voice around that.

You mentioned AI and civics.

So one thing that I think Michelle said earlier so nicely was there are lots of people who are positionally able to do something about this, but don't really have the on-ramps or the way to do it.

And so the AI civics effort is slightly different.

is we've teamed up with two organizations, one in New York City, Data and Society, another distributed effort, although the person's based here in Chicago in the Midwest, called the Digital Public Library of America.

And the effort here is to say, let's think particularly about libraries and librarians.

They have a huge reach in literally every one of 30,000 communities across America, and they're all about information and knowledge, and they're all about civic life.

How do we use that network to light up this very broad national effort to be involved