# Red Hat Plans to Add AI to Fedora and GNOME

2025-02-04

In Christian F.K. Schaller's post [Looking ahead at 2025 and Fedora Workstation and jobs on offer!](https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2025/02/03/looking-ahead-at-2025-and-fedora-workstation-and-jobs-on-offer/) he discusses how the Red Hat team is looking into using IBM's [Granite](https://www.ibm.com/granite) AI models to compliment the development of Fedora Linux and GNOME.

> One big item on our list for the year is looking at ways Fedora Workstation can make use of artificial intelligence. [...]
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> We been brainstorming various ideas in the team for how we can make use of AI to provide improved or new features to users of GNOME and Fedora Workstation. [...]
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>  ... that we offer a good Code Assistant based on Granite and that we come up with other cool integration points.

I'm still not sure how I feel about this approach. While [IBM Granite](https://www.ibm.com/granite) is an open source model, I still don't enjoy so much artifical "intelligence" creeping into core OS development. It also isn't mentioned whether this will be optional on the end-users side, like a desktop feature or package. This *sounds* like it's going to be used directly in the core system (whether reviewing code/patches, improving existing programs). But who knows. Nothing is 100% clear at this current time.

Red Hat has been [pushing hard towards AI](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/future-ai-open-source) and my main concern is having this influence other operating system dev teams. Luckily things seem AI-free in BSD land. For now, at least.