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On February 19–23, 2024, a group of 21 Wikimedians, academics, and practitioners met at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center to draft an initial research agenda on the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for the knowledge commons. We aimed to focus attention (and therefore resources) on the vital questions volunteer contributors have raised, including the promise, as well as risks and negative impacts, of AI systems on the open Internet.

We are optimistic that the use of machine learning and other AI approaches can improve the efficiency of operations on these platforms and the work of volunteers, and can support efforts to reach a new generation of readers and contributors. At the same time, we are concerned about the potential negative impact of the use of AI on the motivations of contributors as well as the misuse of these technologies to discourage volunteers and disrupt their work in the peer-produced knowledge commons ecosystem.

Below, we published the initial thinking on potential research directions that may eventually become a shared research agenda. Our hope is that many researchers across industry, government, and nonprofit organizations will adopt the final research agenda to help support and guide their own research. By focusing research efforts on topics that benefit the knowledge commons and help volunteers, our goal is to help inform and guide product development, public policy, and public opinion about the future direction of AI-related technology.

A note on AI ethics

The development, evaluation, deployment, and measurement of AI tools raise many ethical concerns—both in general and in the context of the knowledge commons. The project of articulating these risks and developing principles and guidelines to shape research in this area reflects both a significant effort and a critically important aspect of every part of the research agenda outlined here. Efforts to develop these principles and guidelines should be made in parallel with the research outlined here. Researchers engaged in any aspect of the work described here have a responsibility to consider the harms and impacts of their research. As ethical principles and guidelines are developed, they should be used to critically assess and shape all the work outlined below. As the work below is conducted, we hope that the results will also shape our knowledge of ethical research.

Participants in the 2024 Bellagio symposium

(Listed in alphabetical order)

Get involved

Questions and comments on the proposed research agenda are encouraged on the talk page.

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