Mark Surman is president of the Mozilla Foundation, a global nonprofit that does everything from developing the Firefox web browser to advocating for a more open, equitable internet. His current focus is fueling Mozilla’s efforts to invest in responsible tech startups (via Mozilla Ventures) and to create foundational technology for more trustworthy AI (via Mozilla.ai). Before joining Mozilla, Surman spent 15 years leading organizations and projects that promoted the use of the internet and open-source technology for social empowerment.
Learn more about Surman’s approach to AI via the Me, Myself, and AI podcast.
Voting History
| Statement | Response |
|---|---|
| Organizations will be ready to meet the requirements of the EU AI Act as they phase in over the next 12 months. Disagree | “The EU AI Act calls on us to do something very useful — create guardrails for risky uses of AI. But we still have a long way to go to figure out what that means in practice, in real products, in actual systems. My guess is it takes the better part of a decade to sort that through on the ground.” |