Artificial Intelligence is a transformative technology, and as a leader in open source, the Fedora Project needs a thoughtful position to guide innovation and protect our community’s values.

For the past year, we have been on a journey with the community to define what that position should be. This process began in the summer of 2024, when we asked for the community’s thoughts in an AI survey. The results, which we discussed openly at Flock and in Council meetings, gave us a clear message: we see the potential for AI to help us build a better platform, but we also have valid concerns about privacy, ethics, and quality.

The draft we are proposing below is our best effort to synthesize the Fedora community’s input into a set of clear, actionable guidelines. It is designed to empower our contributors to explore the positive uses of AI we identified, while creating clear guardrails to protect the project and its values from the risks we highlighted.

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