Wikipedia says it uses AI but not to replace human volunteers

Nonprofits behind Wikipedia on Wednesday It was revealed The new AI strategy The next three years – and it’s not replacing the Wikipedia community of editors and volunteers with artificial intelligence.

Instead, the Wikimedia Foundation says it will use AI to build a new feature “removing technical barriers.”

Amid concerns that AI could ultimately affect the work people have today, Wikipedia shows that it intends to use AI as a tool that makes people’s work easier.

Instead, organizations say they use generation AI in certain areas that tend to excel.

This includes creating AI-assisted workflows that automate boring tasks. Additionally, AI is used to improve Wikipedia’s information discoverability, giving editors more time for the human deliberations needed to build consensus on the creation, modification and update of Wikipedia entries.

AI also helps editors by automating translations and helps new volunteers in the onboarding process.

Chris Albon, machine learning director at Wikimedia Foundation, writes, together with Leila Zia, head of research and head of research at Wikimedia Foundation, “I believe that future work with AI will succeed not only because of our job, but because of how we do it.” With a blog post that announces news.

“Our efforts use years of values, principles and policies (such as privacy and human rights) as compasses. We take a human-centric approach and prioritize human agents. We prioritize the use of open source or openweight AI. We prioritize transparency.

The organization also states that maintaining Wikipedia’s knowledge base is a mission that has grown important since the rise of generator AI, and is known today to make mistakes and sometimes hallucinate answers.