Submissions:2023/Wikipedia for Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Africa
This submission has been noted and is pending review for WikiConference North America 2023.
Title:
- Wikipedia for Ethical Artificial Intelligence in Africa
Theme:
- Education, Equity / Inclusion / Community Health, Languages, Research / Science / Medicine, Technology
Type of session:
- Lecture
Abstract:
Ethical conduct of artificial intelligence (AI) is of pressing importance.[1] Ethics underpins the utility of the training sets upon which AI depends, securing trustworthiness, traceability, authentication, and intellectual property rights.[2] The U.S. National AI Initiative Act of 2020 requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop voluntary standards for AI systems,[3] and ethics is a central concept in its emerging AI Risk Management Framework.[4] As noted in [1], “artificial” intelligence requires vast quantities of human labor, much of which is outsourced to emerging economies, particularly those where English is spoken. The complexities of this issue are unfolding.[5] Wikipedia can promote higher-level participation in AI by residents of emerging economies. I present a case study of Hausa, which is spoken in Chad, Niger and Nigeria. Hausa has more native speakers (77 million) than Italian (68 million), but Italian Wikipedia has 156 times more pages than Hausa Wikipedia. Other languages with comparable numbers of native speakers – Vietnamese, Korean, Iranian Persian and Egyptian Spoken Arabic – also outperform Hausa on Wikipedia. My thesis is that development of native Wikipedia can be extremely efficient in promoting awareness of and participation in AI in emerging economies. Students can be taught to write articles, which count as actual publications in the eyes of the world, and many will be motivated to be productive following basic training. Expansion of Wikipedia in their native language will also contribute to better language translation algorithms.
Author name:
E-mail address:
- cwc
umd.edu
Wikimedia username:
- cwikipediac
Affiliated organization(s):
- ScienceCast, Inc.
Estimated time:
- 15 minutes
Special requests:
- none
Have you presented on this topic previously? If yes, where/when?:
- Yes, at BCI Summit: Transforming Data and AI, New York, NY, June 28, 2023
Okay to livestream?
- Livestreaming is okay
If your submission is not accepted, would you be open to presenting your topic in another part of the program? (e.g. lightning talk or unconference session)
- Yes