Re: A Framework for Human-AI Collaboration in Standards Work

On 2026-04-18 12:26 pm, Christoph [or an LLM] wrote:
> 5. The Topics That Must Be Addressed
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> 5.1 An Outline for Moving Forward
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> To operationalize the principle "humans provide directional judgement, LLMs synthesize and execute" in W3C working groups, the following topics MUST be discussed and resolved:

1. Thank you Christoph for what looks to have been a carefully-crafted prompt.

2. I'm assuming the output is from Claude, since it references Anthropic. But it would have been nice to have that attribution also.

3. But that's just niggling at this fascinating juncture, and the document itself I found gripping, and convincing.

4. And yet I'm left feeling a need to point out that section 5, which details "An Outline for Moving Forward", not only has 8 major sections, but several key questions in each, leading to, by my count, 24 different decisions that must be debated, agreed, codified, and implemented, to move towards the successful use of LLMs in the W3C decision process. And many of those have further sub-parts of different languages or protocols.

5. Then, Michael Herman's running of the same prompt through ChatGPT, which he reports in a post in this thread, though using different abstract terms, ends up with, similarly, at least 7 major sections of changes that have to be addressed, some of which seem to overlap with the ones in Christoph's LLM.

So overall, I'd say: at least the first two LLMs seem to be in /a very rough consensus/ about what has to happen. 😭

Which, to thrown down the gauntlet, I'm going to say is, okay, probably a good start on a process that may take quite a while, us being human an' all. 🙂

Steven Rowat