Before Jimmy Wales founded Wikipedia, knowledge was gatekept by institutions, publishers and experts. His conviction — that knowledge should be freely available to everyone, and that people, given the right conditions of trust and good faith, will collectively pursue truth — produced the world's largest encyclopaedia and fundamentally changed how billions of people learn and understand the world. Two decades on, that conviction is under pressure. Misinformation is rampant, and AI systems, as Wales argues, produce authoritative-sounding falsehoods with no way for users to check them. Join Wales as he reflects on the philosophy and experiences that shaped one of the most consequential websites of our time and explores what Wikipedia's struggle for survival tells us about the future of truth and knowledge.
"Fascinating." – Stephen Fry
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