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Partnership on AI Welcomes DLA Piper, ELLIS Alicante, MLCommons, Open Library Foundation, and Windfall Trust as Partners
Continuing to advance its mission to bring together stakeholders from across sectors to advance responsible AI solutions, Partnership on AI welcomes five new organizations to its Partner community: DLA Piper, ELLIS Alicante, MLCommons, Open Library Foundation, and Windfall Trust.
“It has been almost 10 years since PAI’s founding in 2016. Over that time, we have built a remarkably diverse community of partners working towards a more equitable and prosperous future with AI,” said Rebecca Finlay, CEO, Partnership on AI. “I am honored to welcome DLA Piper, ELLIS Alicante, MLCommons, Open Library Foundation, and Windfall Trust today. They contribute to broadening our collective capacity in law, research, technical standards, public infrastructure, and economic foresight. Each of these areas is essential to co-creating AI solutions that serve the public interest.”
The new Partners support PAI’s ability to bridge technical rigor, governance expertise, and public-interest impact. Each new Partner organization brings a unique perspective that adds to the PAI community’s shared understanding of AI issues at hand, and can support development of responsible AI solutions.
About PAI’s New Partners
DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers worldwide. It provides its clients with legal and business solutions locally, regionally and internationally using integrated teams of lawyers with experience that spans a broad range of disciplines. DLA Piper is widely recognized for its pioneering approach and extensive geographic reach, which enables the practice to look after the business issues that matter to its clients – whether they are large or small. Clients of DLA Piper include single-owner startups, local and household name companies, multinationals, financial institutions, FTSE and Fortune 500 enterprises and their subsidiaries, public bodies and governments.
“Here’s to a perfect match. DLA Piper’s AI and Data Analytics group is a multidisciplinary and global team of lawyers, data scientists, and other professionals who collaborate with clients across the AI ecosystem to understand legal and compliance risks and develop the right strategies for their success. We’re also the founding law firm of the United Nations’ AI for Good Law Track and have close ties to academic institutions focusing on positive AI impacts. Longtime admirers of PAI’s incredible work on and deep commitment to the responsible development and use of AI, we couldn’t be prouder to be its partner,” said Mike Atleson, Of Counsel, DLA Piper.
ELLIS Alicante is a non-profit research foundation focused on responsible and human-centered AI for social good. Hence, it is also known as the Institute of Humanity-centric AI. Its mission is to explore the interplay between humans and AI to generate positive impact. The unit’s research is structured in three areas: (1) AI methods to model and understand human behavior; (2) novel intelligent, interactive systems and the study of human-AI interaction; and (3) trustworthy AI, addressing bias/discrimination/stereotyping, privacy violations, opacity, vulnerabilities (AI safety) and the negative societal impact of AI. ELLIS Alicante fosters responsible AI adoption, promotes societal well-being, and advances human-centered innovation. ELLIS Alicante is part of ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems – www.ellis.eu), the European network of scientific excellence in AI. It is the only ELLIS unit created from scratch and devoted exclusively to this area.
“We are excited about joining PAI. The future of AI isn’t built alone. It is shaped through partnerships that commit to ensuring that the development of AI will contribute to progress. May today mark the start of a fruitful collaboration towards such a future.” said Nuria Oliver, Director and Cofounder, ELLIS Alicante.
MLCommons is an Artificial Intelligence engineering consortium, built on a philosophy of open collaboration to improve AI systems. Through our collective engineering efforts with industry and academia we continually measure and improve the accuracy, safety, speed, and efficiency of AI technologies–helping companies and universities around the world build better AI systems that will benefit society.
“MLCommons is focused on building better systems for AI measurement and accountability to catalyze responsible AI adoption. Our AI Risk and Reliability benchmarking suite, AILuminate, and all our benchmarks are built through collective engineering because we know collaboration with the broader AI community is key to success. We look forward to deepening this collaborative work together with Partnership on AI and their global community,” said Rebecca Weiss, Executive Director, MLCommons.
The Open Library Foundation (OLF) was established in 2016 as an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring the long-term availability, accessibility, and sustainability of open source and open access projects created by and for libraries. OLF enables collaboration among librarians, technologists, designers, service providers, and vendors to share expertise and resources and to develop innovative software and services that advance the missions of thousands of libraries around the world. We believe that open discourse within a diverse and inclusive community is essential to identifying challenges, recognizing opportunities, and developing transformative solutions. One of the most significant contributions librarians offer to the AI ecosystem is intentional curation. Librarians are trained to make transparent, accountable decisions about what information is collected, how it is described, and how it is contextualized. In AI systems, where training data profoundly shapes outcomes, these curatorial practices can help ensure datasets are diverse, well-documented, and responsibly assembled rather than indiscriminately scraped. Librarians bring sustained attention to data provenance, licensing, historical context, and representational balance – areas that are often underdeveloped in AI pipelines but are critical for trust and accountability.
“Joining the Partnership on AI is a natural extension of the Open Library Foundation’s mission to ensure the long-term integrity and accessibility of knowledge. Librarians have spent centuries perfecting the art of ethical stewardship, and as AI becomes deeply embedded in our research and education systems, that expertise is more critical than ever. We look forward to working with PAI to ensure that the AI of tomorrow is built on a foundation of transparency, inclusivity, and a steadfast commitment to the public good,” said Tom Cramer, President of the Open Library Foundation and Associate University Librarian, Director, Digital Library Systems & Services, Chief Technology Strategist at Stanford University.
Windfall Trust works to ensure the economic benefits of advanced AI are shared broadly — across communities, countries, and generations — rather than captured by a few. AI is reshaping economies faster than governments are preparing for it. Windfall exists to close that gap — convening the policymakers, economists, and civil society leaders who need to work through hard questions together, listening to what people around the world actually want from AI’s economic future, and building the tools and frameworks that allow societies to act before crisis forces their hand
“AI’s economic consequences are coming faster than the institutions responsible for managing them can respond. The question isn’t whether disruption will happen, it’s whether governments, businesses and workers will be prepared when it does. PAI’s reach across industry, labour and civil society makes it one of the few organisations that can actually turn that agenda into coordinated action,” said Adrian Brown, Founder and CEO, Windfall Trust.