Edit Wars Disrupt AI-Powered Wikipedia Improvements: The Need for AI Governance

In an instance demonstrating the importance of trustworthy AI, AI bots were employed to streamline Wikipedia edits. However, they became embroiled in edit wars, leading to undesirable consequences. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help foster responsible AI? JOIN US

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/7

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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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