Niharika Singhal
Niharika is a lawyer with a diverse international experience in IT laws, data protection, intellectual property, FinTech & AI, having worked in India, UK, Spain, Germany & Estonia. She has worked as a legal counsel in one of the top tier international law firms as well as a judicial & academic researcher. She has been awarded professional fellowships in the internet governance space in the Asia Pacific region. At FSFE, she manages various European Commission funded projects & legal activities.
Sessions
The persistent surge of AI models is witnessing novel ways of licensing them. This talk explains the recent proliferation of licenses that supposedly call themselves as open but levy additional behavioral restrictions for AI models, based on ethical considerations. This presentation seeks to emphasize how the proliferation of licenses with behavioral restrictions for AI models may impinge on software freedom and cause obstruction to a more distributed control over AI technologies and how openness in AI can be preserved by safeguarding software freedom.