Nextcloud provides file sharing and collaboration capabilities. The presenter discusses their vision for ethical artificial intelligence, including their work on an open source AI assistant for Nextcloud called Nextcloud Assistant. The presenter advocates for open source and local AI that respects privacy, is non-discriminatory, and has a low carbon footprint. They argue an evolved open source definition is needed to ensure AI models and training data are also available under open terms.

1. Nextcloud
Frank Karlitschek
What the AI revolution means for Open
Source, Open Tech and Open Societies

2. Frank Karlitschek
•Studied Computer Science in Tübingen
•KDE contributor and board member
•W3C invited expert
•Fellow at Open Forum Europe
•Advisor to the United Nations about Open Source
•Founder Nextcloud

3. Agenda
• What is Nextcloud
• Ethical AI framework
• Nextcloud Assistent
• Open Source AI ?

4. What is Nextcloud?

6. Fileserver
File Sync & Share
Collaboration
Novell
Windows Server
NFS / AFS
Dropbox
OneDrive
Google Drive
Nextcloud Hub
Microsoft 365
Google Workspace
1980 - 2010
2010 - 2018
2018 - …

7. Productivity, Security, On Premises, Open Source
Files Talk Groupware Office
Nextcloud Hub

8. Bubbles image

10. File Access
Control
Block access and sharing
Based on:
• IP
• tag
• LDAP group
• time
• name
• mime type
• size
• user agent
• …

11. • Most requested feature
• Supported in
• iOS
• Android
• Mac
• Windows
• Linux
• Enterprise grade key management
• Sharing
• Files Drop
• Optional Key Recovery
End 2 End Encryption

17. Nextcloud Calendar Bubbles

19. Mail bubbles

20. Nextcloud Office

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Topo: screenshot Presentation

25. Arti
fi
cial Intelligence

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One of the main goals of Nextcloud is to make your life easier.

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Todo: Illustration/stock photo about Ethics

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30. What is Ethical AI?

31. Non-discrimination

32. Low CO2 footprint

33. Privacy respecting

34. Freely available

35. • Code Open Source
• Model Available
• Training Data Available

36. Flexibility

37. Focus on Open Source
and local AI

38. Large language model 100% Open Source Fully self-hosted
Nextcloud Assistant

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todo: screenshot or short video how to generate and insert a picture
with Dall-E or Stable Diffusion

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todo: screenshot or short video how to generate and insert a pictur
with Dall-E or Stable Di
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usion

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todo: screenshot or short video Speech to Text
In Mail or Talk

51. Screenshot

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54. Python Go
Typescript
Rust
Open Collaboration Services

56. • Code Open Source
• Model Available
• Training Data Available

57. • The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does
your computing as you wish
•The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor
•The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others
4 Freedoms

58. 1. Free Redistribution
2. Source Code
3. Derived Works
4. Integrity of The Author’s Source Code
5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
7. Distribution of License
8. License Must Not Be Specific to a Product
9. License Must Not Restrict Other Software
10. License Must Be Technology-Neutral
Open Source Definition

59. • Code Open Source (Free Software)
• Model Available (Creative Commons)
• Training Data Available (Creative Commons)

60. Summary

61. Ethical AI is possible

62. Local & Open Source AI without data leakage

63. Reduced CO2 footprint with transparent
Open Source Code

64. Minimised Bias with freely available AI
Training Data

65. An evolved Open Source definition is
needed

66. Questions?
Frank Karlitschek