RESHARED POST FROM ROBIN GREEN

“The more humans and nonhumans share existence, the more humane the collective is.” -Latour

Quoting +Azimuth:

The German branch of Wikimedia is trying to develop Wikidata, a database of knowledge that can be read and edited by both humans and machines. It’s being funded through a donation of 1.3 million euros, half coming from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, an organization established by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen in 2010. This is the kind of thing we need to help save the planet.

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