Re: SocialWeb CG Feb 7, 2025 call - possible agenda item

pá 7. 2. 2025 v 12:58 odesílatel Aaron Gray <aaronngray@gmail.com> napsal:

> 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.
>

Hi Aaron

Thanks for bringing this up.  I like the direction this is going.  Just
wanted to do a radar check for the w3c webagents group:

https://www.w3.org/community/webagents/

They are a great group, active, and may have some intersection with what
you are suggesting.

Best
Melvin


> Kind regards,
>
> Aaron
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