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It’s called ROOST — that stands for robust open online safety tools — and it launched at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris today with $27 million in funding from Google, OpenAI, Discord, Roblox and others.

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The initiative’s purpose is to create ‘free, open-source safety tools to public and private organizations of all sizes across the globe.’

independent.co.uk

The initiative will help firms that are unable to afford or build safety mechanisms access technology to detect, review and report child sexual abuse.

standard.co.uk

The initiative, known as Robust Open Online Safety Tools (Roost), will help firms otherwise unable to afford or build their own safety mechanisms gain access to technology to help detect, review and report child sexual abuse material, and use AI to help power other safety features.

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The group will start with a platform focused on child protection as a collaborative, open-source project to foster innovation and make essential infrastructure more transparent, and accessible.

maginative.com

With $27 million secured, ROOST’s first four years of operation are already funded. The challenge now is execution—ensuring that these tools are effective, widely adopted, and continually updated to keep pace with the evolving digital threat landscape.

bizjournals.com

Google and OpenAI are among several backers of a new AI safety nonprofit that launched on Monday amid the AI Action Summit in Paris, though two very notable U.S. tech companies appear to be absent from the effort.

insideaipolicy.com

Big tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta and Mozilla unveiled, at start of the Paris AI summit this week, a new open-source tool intended to protect children from online exploitive content.

tech.eu

ROOST is a new non-profit organisation incubated at the Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University that brings together the expertise, resources, and investments of major technology companies and philanthropies with the aim of building scalable, interoperable safety infrastructure suited for the AI era.

engadget.com

The organization plans on providing free, open-source safety tools to public and private organizations to use on their own platforms, with a special focus on child safety to start.

theverge.com

The Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST) initiative aims to make core safety technologies more accessible for companies and provide free, open-source AI tools for identifying, reviewing, and reporting child sexual abuse material.

fastcompany.com

A group of internet businesses, including Roblox, Google, OpenAI, and Discord, have cofounded a nonprofit called Robust Open Online Safety Tools (ROOST).

bloomberg.com

Robust Open Online Safety Tools, or ROOST, promises to address “a critical need to accelerate innovation in online child safety,” Eric Schmidt, a founding partner of the organization and former chief executive officer of Google, said in a statement. ROOST’s AI-powered tools will identify, review and report child sexual abuse material and make core safety technologies more accessible.

bizjournals.com

Salesforce and Google have joined an international coalition of tech companies, governments and other organizations that aim to promote open, accessible and accountable artificial intelligence products that serve the “public interest.”

thehill.com

The $27 million raised so far will cover the first four years of operation for ROOST, which was incubated at the Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.