Tim Berners-Lee Calls for AI to Preserve 'Original Values' of Web
Berners-Lee says AI should be regulated to keep users in control of personal data, as his startup Inrupt builds tools to filter requests.
- On Wednesday, World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee called for AI regulation to protect personal data at the SXSW tech festival in London, hailing AI as "exciting" but emphasizing the primacy "of the person, of the individual."
- Inrupt CEO John Bruce warned that AI models currently have "unfettered access" to personal data, prompting Berners-Lee to prioritize data protection through the startup Inrupt, launched in 2018.
- To protect users, Inrupt is developing an AI assistant named Charlie that masks personal information before sending requests to tools such as ChatGPT or Claude, ensuring the AI "gets a picture" without identifying individuals.
- Unlike the World Wide Web Consortium, which Berners-Lee founded, the AI industry lacks an international standards body, preventing pioneers from "benefit from the collaboration that they would get" from such an organization.
- He added that Charlie serves to preserve the "original values of the web," noting that people must "make sure that their customers, their citizens, have got control" over their own data.
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In the face of the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), Tim Berners-Lee, the leading inventor of the Web in 1989, calls in an interview with the AFP to "preserve the values" from the beginnings of the internet and wants to allow users to filter personal data sent to the giants of the sector.
Thirty-five years after creating the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee believes that the rise of artificial intelligence must be accompanied by new protections for users.
Tim Berners-Lee calls for AI to preserve 'original values' of web
World Wide Web pioneer Tim Berners-Lee says he wants to see artificial intelligence preserve "the original values" of his invention while allowing users to filter personal data sent to tech giants.
Let us not forget that the character has weight. Tim Berners-Lee is not a stage commentator. He created the Web. In 1989, then physicist at CERN near Geneva, he imagined a system of sharing information between scientists. Two years later, he wrote the first internet browser and laid the foundations for this [...]
Tim Berners-Lee said that the “person, individual” prevalence was at the core of the World Wide Web (WWW) that he created in 1990. Artificial intelligence would benefit from regulation.
Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, urges the development of artificial intelligence to adopt the founding principles of individual sovereignty and free Internet access, while promoting, through his company Inrupt, encryption tools and personal assistants to prevent technology corporations from exploiting users’ private data without restrictions. The post Father of the web demands that the AI preserve the sovereignty of the user appe…
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