Jérôme Hergueux in CNRS Le Mag: ‘Wikipedia faces the threat of AI’
16 October 2026
To mark the 25th anniversary of Wikipedia, Jérôme Hergueux, a researcher at BETA, writes in CNRS Le Mag about the history and workings of the collaborative encyclopaedia, which has become one of the main sources of online information in just a few years. He analyses the challenges it currently faces, ranging from the spread of misinformation to the rapid development of generative artificial intelligence.
In his view, Wikipedia’s strength lies in its decentralised and collaborative model, which makes it a unique resource in terms of its reliability and comprehensiveness. Faced with changes in the digital ecosystem, he advocates for uses of AI that respect the common good of knowledge and its contributors.
