Commons Convenings

Coordination requires relationship.

The pieces of trustworthy AI infrastructure exist. The problem is they don't talk to each other. The research doesn't connect to the policy. The legal frameworks don't connect to the technical standards. The open knowledge communities don't connect to the AI governance conversations.

Convenings serve two functions: building the relationships that make coordination possible, and surfacing the shared frameworks that make disparate efforts legible to each other. AI Commons shows up at gatherings where these connections can be made and hosts its own when they can't happen elsewhere.

Global leadership forums.

AI Commons engages at the highest levels of global AI governance bringing the commons framing into spaces where AI policy is being shaped by governments, institutions, and funders.

• World Economic Forum · Davos annual engagement on AI as civilizational infrastructure, interdependence, and shared accountability standards. Most recently co-hosted the Interdependence Declaration workshop in January 2026.
• G7 / Hiroshima AI Process contributed to the 2023 Hiroshima Process on obligations arising from training on the knowledge commons
• GPAI sustained engagement with the Global Partnership on AI on responsible AI infrastructure, 2022–2024
• Private salons smaller working sessions with policymakers, funders, and institutional leaders. Recent sessions in Palo Alto (hosted by Mei Lin Fung, UN AI for Good) and ongoing series across major cities

The decentralized web ecosystem.

AI Commons is deeply connected to the open knowledge and decentralized web communities the people who have been building commons infrastructure for decades and whose work the AI era now depends on.

• Wikimania connecting AI Commons provenance and governance work to the Wikimedia community, whose content underpins enormous amounts of AI training data
• Decentralized Web Camp engaging the decentralized infrastructure community on provenance architecture, consent systems, and the technical layer of the knowledge commons
• Funding the Commons curating funder tracks focused on coordination infrastructure rather than point solutions. Most recently hosted a full-day track at Frontier Tower in March 2026, focused on the insight that the problem is not lack of capital but lack of coordination
• Internet Archive events working with Brewster Kahle and the Internet Archive community on the provenance challenges of web-scale historical archives

The commons as lived experience.

In February 2026, AI Commons co-created Common Khoj with Khoj Studios alongside the AI Impact Summit in India a living space that ran parallel to the summit. Part exhibition, part working commons, part salon. A prototype for how the commons shows up in the world not as a governance document but as a place people can enter and feel.

Common Khoj is a model we intend to replicate creating commons spaces at major gatherings that make the ideas tangible rather than theoretical.