RE: Welcome to the Web & AI Interest Group (WebAI) - Please introduce yourselves.

Hi Fabien and WebAI Interst Group,

I am Mihai Maftei, researcher at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), with main focus on ethical and responsible development of AI systems. I also act as an EU Expert Evaluator for AI research at the European Commission – European Research Executive Agency, and as member of the steering committee of the Big Data Value Association’s Ethical and Trustworthy AI initiative (BDVA-etami).

My interests focus on the ethics of AI and on responsible, but actionable frameworks for its deployment. I am interested in the Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning, and in exploring the ethical challenges related to Web & AI and how to mitigate/overcome them.

Looking forward to being part of this conversation!


Links:
https://bdva.eu/task-forces/etami/

https://etami.org/

https://www.dfki.de/en/web/about-us/governance/ethics-team

https://cairne.eu/sig-els/

https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/OASIcs.SAIA.2024.7


Best regards,
Mihai
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From: Fabien Gandon <fabien.gandon@inria.fr>
Sent: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 6:16 PM
To: WebAI Interest Group at W3C <public-webai@w3.org>
Subject: Welcome to the Web & AI Interest Group (WebAI) - Please introduce yourselves.

Dear all,

Welcome to the Web & AI Interest Group, known as WebAI.

As a co-chair, I am delighted to have you join us.

The mission of the Web & AI Interest Group is to provide a forum to explore and discuss how emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) related technologies are impacting and intersecting with Web technologies and consider how the community could collaborate to shape these evolutions for the benefit of web users.

Everyone who is involved in the WebAI is expected to behave in accordance with the W3C Code of Conduct:
  https://www.w3.org/policies/code-of-conduct/


Please send a first email to introduce yourself including:
 - Your name, firstname, affiliation job, links and homepage
 - Your participation to other W3C groups
 - Your interest in AI and Web, their coupling, the impact of AI, usage of AI, etc.
 - Any links, pointers, resources you could share on these topics

WebAI works will be carried out on GitHub: https://github.com/w3c/webai


If you have not already done so, please link your GitHub and W3C accounts:
  https://www.w3.org/users/myprofile/connectedaccounts


All the tools of WebAI are found here:
  https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/webai/tools/


As background, you might want to read these documents:
  Charter: https://www.w3.org/2025/10/webai-ig-charter.html

  Initial motivating documents: https://www.w3.org/2025/10/webai-ig-charter.html#deliverables


Best regards,

Fabien Gandon, Wimmics<https://team.inria.fr/wimmics/> (Inria, Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France)
@fabien_gandon<https://twitter.com/fabien_gandon> - http://fabien.info