Wikipedia at the Crossroads: Harnessing AI Without Losing the Human Touch

A few months ago, I was invited to write a short response to a question submitted to the AI Helpdesk—a Dutch-language platform “where anyone can receive scientifically reliable and clear answers to questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI).” The question I was asked to address was: “What are the prospects for AI and Wikipedia?“ Below isContinue reading “Wikipedia at the Crossroads: Harnessing AI Without Losing the Human Touch”

Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots

Our new paper titled “Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia” has finally appeared on PLOS One. There are two things that I particularly find worth-highlighting about this work. First, this is the first time that someone looks at an ecosystem of the Internet bots at scale using hard data and tries to come upContinue reading “Even good bots fight and a typology of Internet bots”