The individuals, institutions, and roles at the launch of OFAI include:

Carnegie Mellon University

• Sayeed Choudhury, Associate Dean for Digital Infrastructure and Director of the Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), will act as Executive Director of OFAI. Choudhury has been appointed to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board and the OSI AI committee. He is also a member of the Human AI Collective Advisory Board - BGV & EAIGG
• Hoda Heidari, K&L Gates Career Development Assistant Professor in Ethics and Computational Technologies. Heidari has joint appointments in the Machine Learning Department and Software and Society Systems. She is also affiliated with Human-Computer Interaction Institute, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy. She is the co-lead for the CMU university wide Responsible AI Initiative.
• Vincent Sha, Associate Dean for IT & Operations in Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Rachel Dzombak, Senior Innovation Adviser, Heinz College
• Anne Lambright (advisor), (Chickasaw Nation), Paul Mellon Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies, Head of the Department of Languages, Cultures and Applied Linguistics and Project Director for the Center for Global Humanities and Inclusive AI Research

Atlantic Council

• Trey Herr, Director of Cyber Statecraft Initiative, Digital Forensic Research Lab

Open Source Initiative

• Stefano Maffulli, Executive Director
• Deb Bryant, US Policy Director

George Washington University

• Lorena Barba, Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• David Lippert, Open Source Program Office Director
• TRAILS team

Georgia Institute of Technology

• Fang (Cherry) Liu, Associate Director Open Source Program Office, Senior Research Scientist, PACE Research Computing Center
• Jeffrey Young, Director Open Source Program Office, Senior Research Scientist College of Computing
• Duen Horng Chau, Associate Professor, School of Computational Science & Engineering

University of Texas at Austin

• Angela Newell, Co-Primary Investigator and Director, Open Source Program Office & Executive Director of Innovation for Chief Information Office

OFAI fellows are the following individuals who offer AI expertise from the private and public sector:

• Anik Bose, general partner at BGV Capital
• Michelle Fang, strategist for Cerebras Systems
• Mike Linksvayer, head of Developer Policy at Github
• Justin Fanelli, Acting CTO of the US Navy and Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University.
• Jordan Usdan, senior director of Strategy & Innovation at Microsoft