In an op-ed for Tech Policy Press, IST Ecosystem Trust and Safety Associate Fatima Faisal Khan explains why the Trust and Safety community needs ROOST, a newly launched non-profit open source tooling hub.
“At the recent Paris AI Action Summit, the launch of ROOST (Robust Online Open Safety Tools) captured the attention of trust and safety professionals. ROOST is a not-for-profit open source tooling hub designed to empower trust and safety engineers by providing ready-to-deploy software to avoid reinventing the wheel whenever they need to develop a new tool. At the same time, each platform retains its own governance and policy decisions. By making interoperable, state-of-the-art tools more widely accessible, the initiative aims to democratize trust and safety practices and foster ecosystem-wide growth in digital safety, writes Fatima.
She continues, “Just as open source helped software development to evolve into a field characterized by collaboration and rapid innovation, the trust and safety field has the potential to redefine itself through open source.”
