Open Knowledge: Wikimedia & Research in the CEE Region/Submissions/Two Knowledge Cultures, One Epistemic Crisis: Can AI Practitioners and Wikimedians Find Common Ground?
| Two Knowledge Cultures, One Epistemic Crisis: Can AI Practitioners and Wikimedians Find Common Ground? | Language of presentation: EN | |
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| Author(s): Natalia Ćwik | Affiliation:Wikimedia Polska (członkini), Warszawa, Polska | Session: Media and information ecosystem, misinformation. |
| Abstract:
Two communities are shaping the future of public knowledge with almost no structured dialogue between them: AI practitioners building systems that increasingly mediate how people access information, and Wikimedians maintaining the open knowledge infrastructure on which those systems depend. Is this gap inevitable? Are we witnessing a paradigm shift so profound that the norms and collaboration models that once allowed different knowledge cultures to self-regulate and exchange ideas simply no longer apply? Or do the old frameworks,open standards, community governance, shared documentation,still offer viable ground for mutual recognition and cooperation? Drawing on desk research and direct observation of the AI industry from the inside, this presentation does not offer easy answers. It maps the collision between two different epistemic cultures, identifies where common interests exist, and honestly examines where they may not. The speaker brings a rare dual perspective - active Wikimedian and working AI practitioner - and invites participants to collectively interrogate whether collaboration is still possible, and what it would actually require. |
Keywords:
1. AI 2. epistemic culture 3. Wikimedia collaboration 4. open knowledge 5. self-regulation | |
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