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Title: What if Wikipedia was edited by AI without humans

Speakers:

Ibrahim Elaidy

Co-founder of Egypt Wikimedians user group and Admin at Arabic Wikipedia, Volunteer on Wikipedia and various Wikimedia projects since 2009. I have been involved in organizing many activities of the Wikimedia Foundation in Egypt and has participated in many conferences since 2014.

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Type: Lightning talk

Track: Wild Ideas

Submission state: submitted

Duration: 10 minutes

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Presentation language: en

Abstract & description

Abstract

we will talk and imagine a future scenario about Wikipedia without humans and edited by AI, What will the experience be like? What are the challenges? Will it be successful or not.

Description

There are many future scenarios about the dominance of artificial intelligence in the coming years and the possibility that it will replace humans in some jobs. What if Wikipedia became AI-edited without the human volunteers? Perhaps the experience may seem difficult and not possible, but with the rapid technical development of artificial intelligence in the future, it may be able to perform many editorial tasks, and perhaps more accurately and quickly. Perhaps you will be able to widely and massively access the sources of knowledge, summarize and rephrase them. Wikipedia may be devoid of some problems related to user relations such as the dispute over neutrality, the editorial war, personal attack and harassment, but on the other hand, many challenges and problems will appear.

We will show a short animated film that imagines this crazy experiment, which would be revolutionary and unique if it actually happened.

Further details

Qn. How does your session relate to the event themes: Diversity, Collaboration Future?

it will talk about future and and possible scenarios in the coming years.

Qn. What is the experience level needed for the audience for your session?

Everyone can participate in this session

Qn. What is the most appropriate format for this session?

• Onsite in Singapore
• Remote online participation, livestreamed
• Remote from a satellite event
• Hybrid with some participants in Singapore and others dialing in remotely
• Pre-recorded and available on demand