What Is Your Dream for Mozilla?
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Hello [receiver’s name],

I’ve long dreamed about working for Mozilla. I learned how to send encrypted e-mail using Mozilla Thunderbird, and I’ve been a Firefox user since almost as long as I can remember. In more recent years, I’ve been an avid follower of Mozilla’s advocacy work, and was lucky enough to partner with Mozilla on investigative journalism in my last job.

In many ways, Mozilla was the dream – and now, as the leader of the Foundation, my job is to make my dreams for Mozilla come true. What that means, though, is making your dreams come true – for a trustworthy and open future of technology; for tech that is a tool for liberation, not limitation; and for tech that values people over profit.

So I’m reaching out to technologists, activists, researchers, engineers, policy experts, and, most importantly, to you – the people who make up the Mozilla community – to ask a simple question.

[receiver’s name]. What is your dream for Mozilla? I invite you to take a moment to share your thoughts by completing this brief survey.

Let’s start with this question:

Question 1: What is most important to you right now about technology and the internet?

  • Protecting my privacy online
  • Avoiding scams
  • Choosing products, apps, technology, and services that I can trust
  • Keeping children safe online
  • Responsible use of AI
  • Keeping the internet is open and free
  • Knowing how to spot misinformation
  • Other (please specify)

Take the survey now →

With your help, together we can imagine and create the Internet we want. Thank you for being a part of this.

Always yours,

Nabiha Syed Executive Director Mozilla Foundation

  • HelixDab2@lemm.eeEnglish
    2710·
    1 day ago

    They seem to have a foregone conclusion that AI is a positive thing, rather than something that should be eradicated like smallpox or syphilis.

    • TheBlackLounge@lemm.eeEnglish
      191·
      1 day ago

      “Responsible use of AI” could mean things like providing small offline models for client-side translation. They’re actually building that feature and the preview is already amazing.

      • barsoap@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        22 hours ago

        Not just building it’s shipping by default. That is, language detection and code that displays a popup asking you whether you want to download the actual translation model is shipping by default. About twelve megs per model, so 24 for a language pair.

      • HelixDab2@lemm.eeEnglish
        815·
        1 day ago

        IMO, there’s no such thing as responsible AI use. All of the uses so far are bad, and I can’t see any that would work as well as a trained human. Even worse, there’s zero accountability; when an AI makes a mistake and gets people killed, no executives or programmers will ever face any criminal charges because the blame will be too diffuse.

          • palordrolap@fedia.io
            37·
            1 day ago

            So who should be held accountable when (mis)use of AI results in a needless death? Or worse?

            Let’s say a company creates an AI taxi that runs you over leaving you without legs. Who are you going to sue?

            “Oh it’s grey, so I’ll have a dollar from each shareholder.” That doesn’t sound right to me.

        • Stovetop@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          There are valid uses for AI. It is much better at pattern recognition than people. Apply that to healthcare and it could be a paradigm shift in early diagnosis of conditions that doctors wouldn’t think to look for until more noticeable symptoms occur.

    • srecko@lemm.eeEnglish
      78·
      1 day ago

      It’s because it is a positive thing. Just because awful businesses hijacked and abused it doesn’t mean it’s all bad. Mozilla is approaching it in a positive way imo.

      • HelixDab2@lemm.eeEnglish
        65·
        1 day ago

        And what, exactly, is positive about it, that has no associated negative outcomes?

        • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
          52·
          1 day ago

          Specific to generative AI, I think client side generation can be a good thing, such as sentiment analysis or better word suggestions/autocomplete.

          A number of other helpful tasks have negative outcomes, but if someone is going to use it, then I prefer they use the version of the tech that minimizes those negative outcomes. Whether Mozilla should be focussing on building that is a different matter though

          AI that isn’t generative AI has a lot of positive uses, but usually that’s not what these discussions are about