Category: Seminar
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I co-founded Wikipedia, but an anonymous mob runs the show—and now I’m banned
A piece that originally appeared in Washington Examiner, July 8, 2026; the above is their title. My title for it would be “How a Mob of Anonymous Bullies Controls Wikipedia for Power and Profit.” I have been permanently blocked from editing Wikipedia, the website I named and led in 2001. Yes, really. I can hear…
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Knowledge in an Age of Black Boxes
This is a keynote delivered June 30, 2026, at the Microsoft conference Infinity 365 in Salzburg, Austria. The assignment was to analyze how the transition from Wikipedia to AI would change how we get knowledge. I began by analyzing these (i.e., Wikipedia and AI systems generally) as two more recent epistemic institutions, each with risks,…
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