Time

Agenda Item

Lead

Notes

5 min

• Start recording

• Welcome & antitrust notice

• Introduction of new members

• Agenda review

• Assigning minutes taker

Chairs

• Antitrust Policy Notice: Attendees are reminded to adhere to the meeting agenda and not participate in activities prohibited under antitrust and competition laws.

• ToIP Policy: Only members of ToIP who have signed the necessary agreements are permitted to participate in this activity beyond an observer role.

• ToIP TSWG IPR Policy: see TF wiki page. AI & Metaverse Technology Task Force. Please remember that TSWG3 has transitioned back to a new IPR policy using W3C license and with a new WG policy for exclusion.

15 mins

• Introduction of new members

• Any general announcements news, that could be of interest to the TF

• Last week's action items

All

• Any news to share

• Deepseek related discussions

• France AI Action Summit

• OpenAI Operator

• WEF Davos

• The Biden Executive Order (on AI) was formally cancelled but new direction isn't clear.

  • Discussed our view of different regulatory approaches in EU, US, China.

  • French company: Mistral AI (open weight LLM)

5 mins

White Paper new draft

@Wenjing Chu

• Current version - old draft.

• The new version being drafted.

• A little progress but a lot of unexpected work preempted it - have to push it down a little further

20 mins

AI Agents

All

• Start the new initiative on AI agents

  • What would we like to accomplish on this topic in 2025? Open discussions.

  • Including the item below

• @Wenjing Chu suggested we do an agent survey to compare and analyze trust models/threat models and figure out what we would like to see in a desirable agent model. This could be an excel sheet. @Eric Drury, @Steven Milstein, commented how this excel sheet need to cover (the columns). @Wenjing Chu also suggested that an architectural framework diagram would be really helpful for clarifying concepts/terms and choices.

• ACTION item: come up with an excel sheet @Eric Drury @Steven Milstein

• ACTION item: come up with a draft diagram @Wenjing Chu

• We also discussed possibility of increasing meetings from biweekly to weekly. 

  • ACTION item: to consider this and make a decision in the next meeting on Feb 13.

• @Eric Drury showed a google doc on listing different areas/questions we may want to find out about agents (related to how we can trust them). Eric will share this doc and ask for comments.

15 mins

The AI Safety Fund RFP

@Eric Drury

RFP: AI Agent Evaluation and Synthetic Content 

https://aisfund.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/25/2025/01/AISF-AI-Agent-Evals-RFP-1.pdf

We discussed about such funding opportunities and whether ToIP as an organization is able to receive such fundings. @Wenjing Chu mentioned how other LF open source projects had targeted funding mechanisms and issues related to who is accountable. Suggest we look deeper into this question when we have a reaslitic funding opportunity in the future. The above RFP's deadline is tomorrow so we won't make it.