SocialWeb CG Feb 7, 2025 call - possible agenda item

Hi Group,

I would like to briefly bring up in todays meeting an agenda item
concerning the idea of possibly creating an AI, robots, and Agents CG
possibly as a Task Force or longer lived "Agentic Social Group" to use
Melvin's term. This was triggered by Bob's recent post on ActivityPub and
AI.

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2025Feb/0000.html

This would be to look at the possible benefits and also the impacts of AI
on ActivityPub and ActivityStreams ecosystems and into mitigation and usage
in terms of moderation and also the wider implications socially and
technically.

I know there are cross cutting concerns with moderation and The ActivityPub
Trust and Safety Taskforce. I do feel this is a separate parallel, much
wider area that needs to be looked at in its own merit as well as in
connection with the moderation, security and safety issues.

We need to establish the knowledge, insight, and people in order to guide
SWICG, ActivityPub and Activity Streams through these technological
developments we find ourselves with, including possible effects on the
protocols from issues like such as AI fuzzing attempts, to social
engineering by AI's, through to how we deal with and approach and
facilitate Avatars and Agents.

I have to say unfortunately at this point I would not want or be able to
head this group but really feel it needs to be put in place. This is due to
my absence of experience in leading such a group and also due to other
duties and current projects, such as studying AI. But, given my existing
knowledge and insights into the impact of AI I would love to be a
contributributing member and to see this happen.
Kind regards,

Aaron
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