Trust and Knowledge in the Age of GenAI: A Conversation with Jimmy Wales

Join the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence for a conversation with Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia.org, on trust and knowledge in the age of GenAI. This will be followed by a panel and audience Q&A with Jimmy Wales on 'AI and the Future of the Commons'. Information on other panellists will follow.

Please note, King's events are free, which means we routinely overbook to allow for no-shows and avoid empty seats. Admission is on a first come, first served basis, so please arrive in good time to avoid disappointment. We will not be able to admit those without tickets or latecomers.

Jimmy Wales is a American-British Internet entrepreneur best known for founding Wikipedia.org, as well as other wiki-related organizations, including the charitable organization Wikimedia Foundation, and the for-profit company Fandom. His debut book entitled ‘The Seven Rules of Trust’ was published simultaneously by Bloomsbury in the UK and Crown Currency in the US on 28 October 2025.

Elena Simperl is a Professor of Computer Science at King’s College London, where she co-directs the King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence. She is also the Director of Research at the Open Data Institute, a Fellow of the British Computer Society and the Royal Society of Arts, and a Hans Fischer Senior Fellow.

Elena’s work is at the intersection between AI and social computing. She features in the top 100 most influential scholars in knowledge engineering of the last decade and the Women in AI 2000 ranking. Elena co-chairs the Croissant working group in ML Commons, developing an open standard to improve data portability, discovery and use in AI. She is the president of the Semantic Web Science Association.

James O’Malley is a writer and journalist covering politics, policy and technology. He writes the newsletter , and is a co-host of YIMBY Pod.

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