Cosy AI
AI development is moving fast. So we are, too.
A Cooperative Framework for AI
CosyAI is enabling common ownership of AI by combining the legal framework of a multi-stakeholder cooperative with decentralized technologies for data-ownership and value distribution.
To make this happen, we are currently building a coalition of cooperatives, community organizations, AI experts, and developers who share a commitment to sincere cooperation and the reduction of global inequality.
We base our efforts on a decade of insights from the Platform Coop movement, as well as tools and technologies from the web3 and the open source communities.
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Our Common Challenge
Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly and increasingly shapes the world for us and our children. This happens in times of growing social and political polarization, creating a challenging environment for bringing powerful AI into the world.
Currently, the development of advanced AI is dominated by a small number big tech corporations, regulated by governments that are often stuck in power games.
Still, we can take this as a chance to bring about a more equitable and accountable economic and political systems:
AI to promote cooperatives
We can use the increasing capabilities of generative AI for promoting cooperatives and other progressive forms of organizing economic value creation. We can also use these tools and their benefits to include people who have been marginalized by the current economic structures.
As a first step, we offer a CosyAI Suite of safe AI apps based on available pre-trained LLMs. For these apps, we can define and implement common safety standards and responsible data policies.
Cooperative LLMs
In the next step, we aim at building specialized cooperative AI models that are trained for the purposes and needs of cooperative organizations and others who are committed to promoting the commons and cooperative practices.
The goal is to offer cooperatively hosted models that offer affordable conditions to those who build the blocks of a more equitable and inclusive economy.
Cooperative Data Pooling
A crucial leverage that we have as a coalition of community owned organizations is the unique access to knowledge and data of cooperatives and local communities.
With the skills and technologies available within our coalition, we can provide the infrastructure for creating unique common datasets that are controlled through decentralized and/or commonly owned cooperative structures that we can trust.
A Basic Income backed by AI
As a vision, we seek to create a basic income for people who are contributing to building a more cooperative world.
The basic plan for for this is simple: The CosyAI Cooperative will offer the CosyAI Suite of safe AI tools for flatrate subscriptions, as well as subscriptions and APIs to safely hosted, specialized generative AI models.
Part of the surplus generated by the CosyAI cooperative will be channeled into a basic income fund. Read more about the Cosy Basic Income vision here.
