Katherine Maher on the future of trusted information

What would it take for AI to become as trusted a source of information as Wikipedia?
Katherine Maher, former CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation, joins the show to talk about the fundamental building blocks of trust behind Wikipedia.
The use of AI will fundamentally reshape what information is distributed on the internet-and how. Reid, Aria, and Katherine talk about what creating and scaling positive spaces and community-driven ideas online would look like in the context of AI.
Could in-text citation be a viable option for generative AI? What was Wikipedia’s response to being used as training data for AI models? Globally, the West currently appears far less optimistic about AI than the rest of the world. They discuss that cost and more.
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The award-winning Possible podcast is back with a new season that sketches out the brightest version of the future-and what it will take to get there. Most of all, it asks: what if, in the future, everything breaks humanity's way? Tune in for grounded and speculative takes on how technology-and, in particular, AI-is inspiring change and transforming the future.
This season, hosts Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger are speaking with a new set of ambitious builders and deep thinkers about everything from art to geopolitics and from healthcare to education. These conversations also showcase another kind of guest: AI. Whether it's Inflection’s Pi, OpenAI’s ChatGPT or other AI tools, each episode will use AI to enhance and advance our discussion.
Possible is produced by Wonder Media Network and hosted by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger. Our showrunner is Shaun Young. Possible is produced by Edie Allard, Sara Schleede, and Paloma Moreno Jiménez. Jenny Kaplan is our Executive Producer and Editor. Special thanks to Katie Sanders, Surya Yalamanchili, Saida Sapieva, Ian Alas, Greg Beato, and Ben Relles. And a big thanks to Katherine Farrell, Jenny O'Donoghue, and Little Monster Media Company.

[@RCCarDude]

Katherine Maher wouldn't know anything about trustworthiness.

[@jens6010]

I think everyone knows NPR is biased. Just look at who they hired for leadership. 😂

[@kingofthemc]

Her father was a Goldman Sachs exec and grew up in Wilton where the average income is well over $225k, with less than 1% of Black Americans yet, my!, it’s so great being so enlightened and in touch with the people, even still. I just remembered why I never listen to NPR anymore.

[@daviddoxtater6749]

She's so far radical left wing that if someone says "middle road" she goes into a coma.

[@primuspilus858]

Ms Maher's skin tone and hair color triggers me and my children and makes us seek refuge in a safe space. Why do we have to be subjected to being racially intimidated by blonde representations of slavery, ill-gotten riches and privilege?

[@cmc5394oparva]

Trusting Katherine Maher (or Reid Hoffman) about "trusted information" is like trusting Squealer on why pigs need to eat apples.

[@mentallyillpartisan1362]

After 12 seconds i've diagnosed these two as some of the most self-righteous, holier than thou, propagandists alive.
"it's so greaaaat that your mom is a senatorrr and your dad is a bankerrr and you get to decide what truthhh is"
unbareable

[@NightimeInDeepSpace]

Typical privileged woman millennial white saviours, the most out of touch people in the entire universe

[@philm.6113]

NPR - Never Praise Republicans

[@RG-qt2fk]

Sweet Marxist get together