RightsCon Toronto 2018

This session explores the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and access to knowledge. The panel examines AI’s potential for expanding human participation in the creation of knowledge online. Panelists will discuss the principle of “AI plus human review”, which can empower online communities to collaborate and make decisions collectively, e.g. on Wikipedia. The session will also discuss the effects that machine learning and automatic decision-making about content on internet platforms have on people’s ability to find, engage with, collect, contribute to, and share knowledge. Topics for this part of the conversation include upload filters that prevent certain lawful uses of copyright-protected content, algorithmic decisions to show one type of information but not another, or AI that is deployed to curb harmful speech but interferes with research or documentation. The discussion will further provide insights into biases in AI and how they can affect internet users’ ability to find content online.