 for the kind introduction. In the next 20 minutes, I want to talk with you about artificial intelligence in the European Union. And yeah, as said, I'm representing the Free Software Foundation Europe. And we are a charity that empowers users to control technology. And yeah, we do believe that this is done with the help of Free Software. And if I can click my slides, I would then go to the next one. Ah, there we go. Yeah. And I think also learning from this conference is that Free Software is pretty much everywhere these days. And this also means that Free Software is a lot on AI. And there will be more free software in AI in the next years. And that's why we need to think about it. So we need to think about how to regulate it and how Free Software can help to transform the world into a better place than here. And therefore, we came up with some criteria. And first of all, we do believe that AI should or must respect fundamental rights. Also, it need to be transparent. It need to be fair and accessible. And in the end, it should not discriminate us, but it should help us. So and with these criteria, we come up to the conclusion that we need free software, so open source for this. So because only with free software, we can guarantee that we can at least check if fundamental rights are protected. For example, because we have transparent code and we can also check if people are discriminated because of the transparent code. But there are also other reasons. Free Software helps to foster innovation. Also, a learning in general whenever we talk about free software open source from this conference, because first of all, we don't have to reinvent the wheel over and over again. And with free software, we have the right to modify the software so we can build on what's already out there. And thus, yeah, we can be quicker with innovation and that's why we also do believe that for AI we should use free software open source. And also, this is also a learning from, I think, the corona crisis that transparency also leads to trust. Just think about the tracing apps we had or still have. And only due to the fact that the code was transparent, we could check how our health data, for example, have been handled. And these transparency lead to the fact that people trust the software and use it. And therefore, we need transparent software and this is guaranteed with free software or open source licenses. So when we talk about regulating AI, then we also need to talk about the current proposal of the European Union, the commission proposed a law on regulating AI. Unfortunately, there's no saying on open source in it, but we have also the European Parliament and the European Parliament started to amend to the commission proposal. And for the European Parliament, open source free software plays a role. And what they did until now, so from the jury committee, this is the legal committee of the European Parliament, they submitted the text and they want an exclusion for open source AI systems until those systems are put into service or are made available on the market. And I think that's a very good idea because we all know that free software projects sometimes or hopefully most of the times are developed openly. This means you can see and follow every step of the development, but also this means that there might be times when there shouldn't be any liability to the ones who contribute or who think about bringing such a concept into life, but as soon as there's money involved, then there should be also liability involved. And this is something which is kind of different to proprietary software. And this concept has been like with the AI regulation first introduced in the European lawmaking process. And I will tell you later about this, also we continue in other upcoming proposals, not only on AI. And this is very important that the European Union, especially the European Parliament, understood in the meantime that there are advantages of free software and open source software and that there also needs to be a specific regulation around it. First, we've seen exclusion in the copyright directive for co-chairing platforms. Now we see it in the AI regulation in terms of liability. And we had a very strong position from the European Parliament on AI in general. So this is not connected to the lawmaking which is taking place, but this was just like a resolution by the European Parliament. And that was also highly interesting because they said that the principle of public money, public code, PMPC, should also apply to AI. So public money, public code means whenever governments, public bodies and so on, so whenever there's public money involved, then the results should also be made publicly available under a free and open source license. So we are running a campaign on this and called public money, public code. And the principle, this idea was put into this resolution of the European Parliament. So they do believe that whenever public bodies are using or procuring AI, then it should be released under a free and open source software license because for the reasons of transparency, which leads to trust, but also in terms of innovation that we can or that we don't have to reinvent the wheel over and over again. Also, they refer to the open source strategy of the European Commission. So a couple of years ago, the European Commission also came to the idea that it might be a good idea to release software under a free and open source software license because this is not only on AI, but I mean administrations all over the world are doing more or less every time the same. So there's no need to procure software for every single administration, but it's way better to collaborate, share costs and expertise, modify the software and also as taxpayers' money, our money is involved, it should also be given to us in the end and we should also have access to the software. And also the European Parliament said that free software is good for innovation, though they understood and they have seen in the last years that it's a very good idea to use public funds and invest in free software because it not only helps administrations to save money, but also like to boost innovation and thus industry and business. The bad thing about this resolution is it's not legally binding, but the good thing about it, all of these principles have been voted with a huge majority. So there have been only a few members of the European Parliament voted against it. So all big groups coming from left to right voted in favor of this idea. So we have a huge majority in general in the European Parliament when it comes to the idea of investing in free software and this is also true then for AI and this will help us a lot. And another interesting file which just like was released in the beginning of your year is the Declaration on Digital Rights. Again, proposed by the European Commission, but this paper should lead like digital rights of the European Union for the next decade. And unfortunately, there have been only references to the Berlin and Tallinn Declaration from the Commission in this paper and these both declarations, already the member states agreed on investing more in free software, whatever this means, like what is more, right? Is one euro more already more enough? And here again, the European Parliament amended to this position of the European Commission and they say that they see free software as a way to ensure transparency in the use of algorithms and AI and they are highlighting the importance of promoting trustworthy standards and whenever possible open source standards. So whatever this technically means, so I mean we have to maybe modify the wording here a bit but the European Parliament understood the importance of transparent AI and also want to bring this into the declaration of digital rights. So even if you won't find a concrete saying on AI and free software in the AI Act itself, there are surrounding documents these days, mainly amended by the European Parliament, highlighting the importance of free software and trying to make sure that there are also funds allocated to the free software projects out there dealing with the AI. And also what is super interesting is that beside of AI is the Cyber Resilience Act and with the Cyber Resilience Act, the European Commission just like also released the paper and there they now understood itself after the amendments from the European Parliament that the upcoming laws should include sayings on free software and here the European Commission understood that free software is an enabler for innovation and research and this is also highly interesting because now the European Commission also comes up with these texts and we see that it's going to be more and more important in the European Union that they have a saying on free software and that they include parts on free software open source in the legislation and that will help us a lot not only to have more free software but that there are also funds allocated to this and this is basically mainly what we are trying to do to lobby in the European Union but also in the member states that there are yeah, more laws taking notes and remarks on the special needs and the special structure of free software and that there can't be like a general saying on all software projects but we need to have specific sayings on free software and open source as well. So what's ahead of us? So in the yeah, pretty much next month the European Parliament will discuss these positions with the European Council which are the member states of the European Union and here in the member states I would say they are like not so much into it like the European Parliament so it will be super interesting to see how these negotiations will turn out in the end and this is also a call for you so whenever you talk to your local governments strengthen the position of the European Parliament because this will help us in these negotiations between the Council and the European Parliament so member states also need to understand as the Commission just recently did that free software plays an important role not only on AI but on all digital files but especially these days in the AI Act maybe also in the AI Liability Act the Product Liability Act which have been also just recently released the Digital Rights Declaration but also now here in the Cyber Resilience Act and by the end of the year hopefully we will first have the Declaration being voted on and then afterwards in the next year we will work again on the AI Act or continue to work on the AI Act and then also Cyber Resilience Act and AI Liability Act and what we are doing from FSFE is to use this mentioned campaign Public Money, Public Code so four years ago we just came up with this campaign not with the ideas or the idea is I would say way longer around but with this campaign we are reaching out to decision makers all over Europe and try to convince them that we want to have legislation in place that publicly financed software developed for the public sector to be made publicly available under a free and open source software license or to say it in short if it's public money it should be public code as well so this campaign had more than 30,000 signatures so far from individuals but even more important also a lot of organizations signed this more than 200 organizations from all over Europe and not only like the usual suspects like I don't know Wikimedia and the Open Knowledge Foundation and so on but also it's a widespread campaign which is supported by the middle of the society let's say like this and also what's super interesting and what I at least have never seen before by administrations itself so for example the city of Barcelona signed this campaign administrations from Sweden from Germany signed this campaign next there will be an administration from Luxembourg signing this campaign so they're also already administration behind this campaign and promote this idea and say that it's a very good idea also for their work to go into direction of public money public code and we've seen not only in the European Parliament these votes and the resolution I just mentioned but we have especially on the local level like municipalities, city councils and stuff like this so there we see a lot of progress and they understand that it's a good idea to collaborate with other municipalities with other administrations as they're doing more or less the same over and over again so that's why they should share their procurement procedures for example so to procure software together or to divide it into parts so one municipality procures one part another one the other part so and by thus they can also see that after a very short time they can save a lot of money and also the products way more tailored to their specific needs and this is particularly important because the four freedoms of free software to use, study, share and improve help also administrations we've just recently had a debate about digital serenity yeah so that we are able to not run into a Vendor log ins but to have the control over the technology and this is also for administrations very important and to be able to modify the software quickly again here we've seen this with the corona tracing apps for example so it's possible to have a cross border communication and the only thing which needed to be changed more or less was a translation it was a language thing so that my Spanish RALA COVID app also works with the German corona tracing app so that there is exchange of data but without interfering with privacy and at the same time we've been able to whenever we have seen bugs to quickly fix them and we didn't have to go to a vendor and ask them please do this for us and then maybe the vendor tells us no we want extra money for this or however and so on so we are able as administrations as society to modify the software to our tailored needs and that's why administrations also understand for their daily work that is so important to use more free software and yeah here you can see some of the organizations who signed this and this is also a call for you so individually please feel free to sign this campaign it helps us a lot we have seen it again during the AI Act but also in general meetings with decision makers that this campaign is a game changer in terms of lobbying but also if you are a representing organization please feel free to reach out to us and even better if you are representing an administration or know somebody from administration please use this campaign to explain the concept of free software and why it's important that public administrations should invest in this and just to give you a last number on this so up to 27% of the revenue of IT companies these days are made by public administration so just imagine how our world would look like if we invest all of these funds into free software and not proprietary software anymore thanks a lot