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Community Voices on AI: Attribution as the Norm

Event Details

If you have Googled, Grok’d, or ChatGPT’d anything recently, you’ve encountered an AI-generated response, built by pulling information from a wide range of sources, often without clarity about which sources are being used. Compare this to looking something up on Wikipedia, where citations let you trace a claim back to its sources. That chain of attribution is what makes information more trustworthy and helps prevent the spread of misinformation. Unfortunately, in the current context of AI systems, attribution is commonly an afterthought or omitted altogether. Many AI foundational models make it impossible to determine how any given input contributed to an output.

Our democracy depends on all people being able to openly and equitably share and access the commons of knowledge, verify it, and build upon it. We expect attribution to be the norm in human sharing of knowledge and in AI systems, to always give credit to creators and show where the knowledge originates. This is already the norm for reuse in academic settings, open access publishing, and Creative Commons licenses, and makes it easier to discover and verify data as we all contribute to and benefit from a thriving commons.

Join practitioners from Creative Commons, NISO, AXM, and the Wikimedia Foundation for a grounded community conversation about why attribution should be the norm in AI systems, and how the field is actually building solutions for the future. Panelists will discuss development and deployment of AI technologies that give inference-time attribution in AI systems such as Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) models and agent models. Together we will discuss requirements and best practices for next generation tools that facilitate sharing while normalizing attribution in the age of AI. 

Meet the speakers

  • Monica Granados

    Director of Open Science

    Dr. Monica Granados is the Director of Open Science where she leads CC’s Open Science Portfolio working with researchers, librarians, consortia, policy makers, and other stakeholders in scholarly communication to equip them with education and training about our licences so that they can implement open science practices and increase access…

  • Todd Carpenter

    Executive Director, National Information Standards Organization

    Todd Carpenter joined NISO as Executive Director in September 2006. In this role, Todd provides leadership to NISO as well as focuses on improving constituency relationships, standards development, and operational procedures. Prior to joining NISO, Todd was Director of Business Development with BioOne, where he served the goals of both…

  • Andrew Farrior

    COO, AXM

    Andrew Farrior is the COO of AXM Technologies, a company building systems to help creators, institutions, and rights holders manage how cultural assets are used in the age of artificial intelligence. His work focuses on the growing intersection of AI, intellectual property, and the global creative economy. He is also…

  • Rita Ho

    Director of Design, Wikimedia Foundation

  • Pau Giner

    Principal UX Designer, Wikimedia Foundation

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