Wikipedia Cofounder Jimmy Wales on How to Build Trust
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So Adi, picture a moment when a new source of information comes online. turns into a go-to for people everywhere, sometimes to the chagrin of professors and bosses, but becomes a household name and really changes the internet. So we're doing AI again. Actually I am talking about Wikipedia, the online crowdsourced encyclopedia, which for a long time generated a lot of skepticism, but today is actually seen as a pretty trusted source of information. It's an example of an organization that
actually created something positive on the internet. And my guest today is the co-founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales. Interesting. So I interviewed Jimmy Wales years ago when I was at Time magazine and Wikipedia was just getting established. And I actually tried to challenge him.
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