World Economic Forum Shares Censorship Plan For Online Abuse

The World Economic Forum shared a report last week outlining a plan to mitigate “the dark world of online harm” by using human and artificial intelligence to censor bad actors who produce and promote child abuse, disinformation, and hate speech.

Inbal Goldberger, vice president of Trust and Safety at ActiveFence, a company that detects malicious online content, published an op-ed on the global organization’s website, offering a solution to online abuse. Such solutions would enable a blend of AI and so-called “subject matter experts” to “detect nuanced, novel online abuses at scale, before they reach mainstream platforms.”

Goldberger said an intelligence-fueled approach to content moderation would work by allowing human and AI teams to flag or remove high risk-items after transmitting millions of sources through training sets.

“Supplementing this smarter automated detection with human expertise to review edge cases and identify false positives and negatives and then feeding those findings back into training sets will allow us to create AI with human intelligence baked in,” she wrote. “This more intelligent AI gets more sophisticated with each moderation decision, eventually allowing near-perfect detection, at scale.” – READ MORE