How FOST and Drupal AI Initiative Are Pushing the Boundaries of Responsible AI Together

FOST and Drupal AI Initiative: Next Era of Responsible AI

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Published on 27 Nov, 2025

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Three years after the launch of generative AI tools marked a new age for artificial intelligence, almost 90% of survey participants reported that their companies are frequently using AI.

However, the speed of advancement is inconsistent. Although AI tools are widely available, many organizations have not integrated them sufficiently into their workflows and processes to achieve significant benefits at the enterprise level.

The latest McKinsey Global Survey on the state of AI reveals a landscape defined by both broader uses, including the growing proliferation of agentic AI, and stubborn, ongoing pains, with the transition from pilots to scaled impact remaining a work in progress at most organizations.

What’s clear from the reports is that almost everyone has started using AI in some way. Teams are drafting content with it, speeding up research, automating routine tasks, and weaving AI into their daily workflows.

But even with all this momentum, one big question still hangs in the air: Are we using AI responsibly?

Adoption is happening at lightning speed, yet the systems, guardrails, and governance needed to use AI safely and transparently aren’t growing at the same pace. Organizations are experimenting more than ever, but responsible use is still very much a work in progress.

FOST and Drupal AI Initiative are stepping into this moment from two different directions but with a shared purpose. FOST brings the bigger technology picture, cloud, security, machine learning, and governance, while Drupal AI Initiative brings the practical, open-source tools that teams can actually use today.

When they come together on Dec 9th, you get a powerful combination, a space where big ideas about responsible AI meet real systems that are already being built, tested, and improved in the open.

In that sense, both are shaping the same future, one where AI is fast and impressive, but transparent, accountable, and designed to work in the real world.

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Now, let’s understand what FOST is all about!

FOST, The Broader Technology Landscape

Future of Software Technologies (FOST) is one of the world’s largest federated technology events, bringing together the builders of tomorrow to reimagine what software can, and should, become.

FOST stands at the crossroads of every major force shaping our digital world:

Where cloud-native engineering meets cybersecurity,
Where machine learning meets human responsibility,
Where APIs meet the ecosystems, they power,
Where governance is a shared promise about the kind of digital future we want to build.

FOST Drupal AI Initiative OpenSense Labs

FOST is uniting the most important shifts happening in technology today as a single connected ecosystem. Instead of treating AI, sustainability, security, developer experience, and open standards as separate conversations, FOST brings them together because the future of software depends on how these movements interact.

Generative AI needs responsible governance
Green software needs smarter infrastructure
Cybersecurity needs global cooperation
Developer tools need new ways of thinking
Open standards tie everything together

It sets the stage for the conversations the world can’t afford to postpone, conversations about openness, trust, resilience, sustainability, and the role software now plays in civic life.

It offers a neutral ground where developers, researchers, policymakers, founders, and system architects can align on what responsible technology should look like at scale.

Drupal AI Initiative

Drupal is evolving, from a classic CMS to a full-fledged AI-enabled content platform, one that’s practical, extensible, and grounded in openness and human oversight.

The momentum behind this transformation was visible at DrupalCon Vienna. As part of the official roadmap, Dries announced major milestones like Canvas and Site Templates, signaling that AI-capable Drupal is no longer a “what if,” but a “what’s next.”

For organizations, agencies, or teams working on Drupal, this is a watershed moment. Embracing Drupal AI Initiative now means being part of a community-driven shift toward smarter content workflows, faster time to market, consistent design and structure, and AI that users can control.

At the core of this transformation are a few key components:

AI Core & Modular Architecture: Drupal's modular structure, which has always been a key advantage, is now the foundation for AI. Instead of adding AI as an extra layer, Drupal embeds it at the core. This method guarantees that AI functionalities blend smoothly with current content models, permissions, and workflows.
No-Code AI Framework: With Drupal tools like Drupal Canvas, non-developers, including content editors, marketers, and designers, can use AI without writing any code.
At DrupalCon Vienna, this visual site builder was demonstrated live, showing how users can create fully structured, brand-consistent pages with simple prompts, merging layout, content, and design, all driven by AI but managed by humans.
Agentic Framework: Drupal aims for more than just basic content creation. In Drupal, autonomous agents can oversee websites, recommend updates, identify inconsistencies, or even draft content, all while maintaining a transparent audit trail and allowing humans to have the final decision.
Transparency, Auditability & Privacy by Design: Since Drupal is open-source and driven by the community, the AI integrations are transparent, can be examined, and are manageable. The core elements of Drupal, such as structure, permissions, workflows, and audit logs, now also apply to AI modules. This guarantees that data sovereignty, governance, and trust stay at the forefront as you adopt automation.

With this transformation, everyone in the Drupal community is talking about Drupal AI Initiative, if you also want to bring AI into your Drupal projects, and learn how to use drupal AI modules:

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Where FOST and Drupal AI Initiative Intersect

FOST and Drupal AI Initiative may come from different corners of the tech landscape, but they meet at a shared belief: the future of software must be open, secure, interoperable, and built with human intention at its core.

Drupal AI Initiative naturally aligns with the principles that FOST champions; both insist that responsible technology is the foundation of software technology.

And also, that AI becomes truly valuable only when it respects the people who use it, the data it touches, and the systems it integrates with.

Where FOST and Drupal AI Initiative Intersect OpenSense Labs

Their shared goals are unmistakably aligned:

Ethical data practices: Drupal’s dedication to data sovereignty aligns with FOST’s emphasis on privacy-first designs. Together, they drive AI towards transparency instead of surveillance.
Human oversight: Drupal's AI tools are created with human involvement at every step, including audit logs and managed automation, reflecting FOST's belief that AI should enhance human decision-making, not take its place.
Sustainable automation: Both communities prioritize long-term impact over short-term gains. Automation in Drupal AI is built to reduce friction and improve workflows without compromising planetary or organizational sustainability.

At this intersection lies an open-source model where AI evolves in public, shaped by communities, governed transparently, and improved collaboratively.

Why You Should Attend This Event?

FOST and Drupal AI Summit is for understanding the real shifts happening across content, publishing, marketing, and digital operations, and what they mean for the future of your work.

At the Summit, you will:

Discover how AI is changing content operations end-to-end, from modelling to delivery to optimization.
Understand the new expectations for AI-enabled digital experiences and what organizations need to prepare for next.
See how leading teams are moving from scattered use cases to structured AI strategies that reduce friction and increase velocity.
Learn how Drupal is evolving to support the next generation of AI-driven content platforms, from editor tools to automated systems to agentic capabilities.
Connect with the people shaping this evolution, contributors, architects, and practitioners designing AI for real-world environments.

This event gives you a clear view of what’s coming, what’s already possible, and how to prepare your teams, workflows, and systems for the next wave of AI transformation.

If you want a grounded perspective on where AI in Drupal and digital experiences more broadly is headed, this is the room you need to be in.

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What to expect

You will hear from the teams behind Drupal AI initiatives and industry experts discussing trustworthy AI. Sessions will address:

How AI integrates within open-source architecture
How governance and compliance are incorporated into systems from the outset
How community-driven efforts enhance AI transparency
What open-source flexibility signifies for organizations that prioritize control over their data and workflows

Being hosted at FOST situates the Drupal AI Summit within a larger framework of 25 parallel tracks on AI, security, cloud, and open standards. It illustrates that Drupal’s efforts are part of a broader narrative about the future of technology.

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Key Takeaways

FOST and Drupal AI Initiative are steering AI toward a future that is fast and capable, grounded in practical, real-world workflows.
Drupal AI Initiative offers a practical, open, and transparent path forward through Drupal AI modules, unlike black-box systems.
FOST brings the broader vision of responsible, secure, and interoperable software into a single technology ecosystem.
The intersection of FOST and Drupal AI Initiative shows how AI should evolve in terms of transparency, data sovereignty, human oversight, and sustainable automation.
The Summit equips you with a practical roadmap of how to implement AI in a way that aligns with your organization’s standards, data policies, and operational goals.