Neutrality

Part of the AI Wiki policies

AI is an industry full of superlatives, rivalries, and open disputes. An encyclopedia is useful precisely because it does not take a side in them.

Describe, do not advocate

  • Articles state what a system is, what it does, what is documented about it, and what credible parties say about it. They do not recommend products, rank vendors by editorial taste, or borrow marketing language ("revolutionary", "best-in-class") as description.
  • Comparative claims ("outperforms", "largest", "first") appear only with a citation and their scope: which benchmark, which date, whose measurement.
  • Contested topics (safety debates, lawsuits, layoffs, geopolitics) are written with attributed positions: who claims what, on what evidence. Allegations are labeled allegations until adjudicated.

Independence

  • No one can pay for an article, for placement in one, or for the removal of accurate, sourced information. There are no affiliate links in article text.
  • Subjects of articles are welcome to suggest corrections through the same public channels as everyone else ("Suggest edit", "Report issue"), and those suggestions are weighed against sources like any other.

Weight

Neutrality does not mean false balance. When the evidence on a question is lopsided, the article says so; when a minority position is notable, it is covered as a minority position with its critics cited. The goal is that a well-informed skeptic on either side of a dispute could read the article and call it fair, per the verifiability policy.