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Wikipedia on Wednesday\u00a0revealed\u00a0its new AI strategy\u00a0for the next three years \u2014 and it\u2019s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial intelligence, thankfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, Wikipedia says it will use AI to build new features that \u201cremove technical barriers,\u201d allowing editors, moderators, and patrollers tools that allow them to accomplish what they need to do, without worrying about how to \u201ctechnically achieve it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amid concerns that AI could eventually impact jobs held by people today, especially in terms of content creation, Wikipedia indicates that it intends to use AI as a tool that makes people\u2019s jobs easier, not replace them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the organization says that it will utilize generative AI in specific areas where it tends to excel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This includes the creation of AI-assisted workflows that will automate tedious tasks. In addition, AI will be used to improve the discoverability of information on Wikipedia, giving editors more time for the human deliberation that\u2019s required to build consensus over the creation, changes, and updates to Wikipedia entries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI will also aid editors by automating translation and will assist in the onboarding process of new volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe believe that our future work with AI will be successful not only because of what we do, but how we do it,\u201d writes Chris Albon, the director of machine learning at the Wikimedia Foundation,\u00a0in a blog post <\/a>a<\/a>nnouncing the news<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur efforts will use our long-held values, principles, and policies (like privacy and human rights) as a compass: we will take a human-centered approach and will prioritize human agency; we will prioritize using open-source or open-weight AI; we will prioritize transparency; and we will take a nuanced approach to multilinguality, a fundamental part of Wikipedia,\u201d Albon adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The director also argued that maintaining Wikipedia\u2019s knowledge base is a mission that\u2019s grown in importance since the rise of generative AI, which today is known to make mistakes and hallucinate answers at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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