AI Commons
Explore artificial intelligence systems without surrendering your archive. Learn how different systems work, understand their risks and rules, and help build public knowledge that everyone can use.
Using an artificial-intelligence system is optional. The person's outcome is the goal.
KISOP starts with the outcome a person wants. If you want to improve your heart health, taking a walk with a friend may help. No model or chatbot is needed. A person may choose a model-based tool to explain information or prepare a question, but the tool should never displace the practical step, the person beside you, or your own judgment.
What the Commons is, and what it is not
KISOP is building the economic engine for open-source communities, one that benefits the local communities around them.
What it is
- Open knowledge. Everything published here is meant to be free for every person, forever: readable whole, sources named, a date on every page.
- Open source. The code opens with the public launch under an open license.
- Funded by all of us. Community-funded work is released to everyone. The jobs board records each release: the date, where it lives, and its license.
- An economic engine for open-source communities. Paid, community-funded work that stays open, so the people who build it and the local communities around them both benefit.
What it is not
- A product. KISOP sells no assistant and no subscription.
- A model vendor. The Commons compares models. It does not make one.
- A place that keeps your archive. The Personal Neutral Archive (PNA) stays on a device you choose. This site has no accounts, no cookies, and no analytics.
- A "personal" AI on a company's machine. Several companies now offer to hold your whole life on hardware they own. The field guide has the dated entries.
No license is attached yet. Counsel is choosing the instrument. Until it lands, these lines are a dated promise of direction, and the Terms still govern. Details: the registry's rights section · the contribution guide · KISOP's own directory entry.
What brings you here?
Use AI with KISOP
Compare Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and open or local models. See what leaves your device and what remains only a proposal.
LibraryLearn and research
Browse articles and readings by subject, then follow the sources rather than taking KISOP's word for them.
Public rulesKnow your rights
Find laws, privacy questions, KISOP's AI rules, and a plain disclosure of how this site is made.
Plain definitionsUnderstand the field
Distinguish language-model chatbots, predictive systems, world models, embodied systems, and physical machines.
Open workHelp build
Review a reference architecture, test a claim, contribute research, or take on a defined job.
Fund the workSupport the Commons
Follow plans for art and merchandise whose proceeds would help pay for public-interest work.
KISOP does not depend on artificial-intelligence systems
The Personal Neutral Archive, Consent Gate, Together Protocol, message delivery, and community applications are the core system. None requires a conversational AI. Paper, ordinary software, and help from other people remain valid paths.
The field of artificial intelligence has its own visible section because its systems, companies, infrastructure, and laws are changing quickly and affecting everyday life. People should be able to understand them without needing to work in technology.
Benefits, harms, and open questions
Questions about possible benefits
- Can a tool explain a difficult record or help someone prepare a better question?
- Can local models provide useful assistance without sending personal data away?
- Can systems used in research help people find treatments or help communities respond to fires, floods, and other hazards?
- Who receives the benefit, and who pays the cost?
Questions about possible harm
- What happens to privacy, work, access, reputation, and human freedom?
- Can the system discriminate or make a consequential decision no person can challenge?
- What electricity, water, minerals, labor, and public money does it consume?
- What happens when its answer is wrong?
This Commons does not assume that every system in the field is good or bad. Each entry asks what the system does, who built and operates it, who benefits, who bears the risk, what alternatives exist, and what a person can verify.
Where this stands
The structure is live; much of the collection is still being assembled. Reference architectures, laws, company entries, and research notes carry dates and status labels. A page marked Draft or Concept is not a tested instruction.