Overview

Plaintext Group was a nonpartisan, technology innovation policy initiative developed by Schmidt Futures. 

 

Plaintext’s goals included: bringing together technologists and policy professionals to translate complex technical concepts into comprehensible “plain text” for policymakers, researchers, philanthropies, and nonprofits. In addition, Plaintext worked to inform debate by producing novel, relevant, and considered research insights into today’s most important technology innovation policy issues. These insights focused on AI research and development, semiconductor manufacturing, modernization of government, and more. 

 

Plaintext is no longer accepting new proposals or originating new awards. For more information about Plaintext’s work, please email: aramaswami@schmidtfutures.com

Artifacts

Plaintext’s policy research papers are available below: 

 

• Playbook For Opening Federal Government Data: How Executive & Legislative Leadership Can Help 
• Securing Open Source Software at the Source: Creating a Center for Open Source Software Infrastructure and Security
• Understanding Chinese Tech in AI Research: Dewey Insights – China Series
• Unheralded AI Researchers: Finding Hidden AI Research Talent
• A National AI for Good Initiative: Identification and development of datasets