Princess Beatrice makes powerful speech on importance of bringing people together

Princess Beatrice spoke about the need to build trust and bring people together online during a talk at London Tech Week.

The daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson joined Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales for a chat at Olympia, where they discussed how online communities can help shape better rules and content.

During their talk, Beatrice pointed out how important it is to create spaces where people can talk and make decisions together.

She also shared her view that trust grows when people feel included. “Really what we need is more community online,” the Princess said.

“Spaces for people to come together and discuss and arrive at content decisions and platform rules that feel right to them,” she added.

“That’s also how you build trust among people.”

The two also talked about how AI should support people and not replace them while also touching upon how AI could help fight false information.

“Fight disinformation, improve knowledge equity, and expand digital inclusion across 300+ languages,” were the topics of discussion.

The two also shed light on “sustainable reuse of content through technical partnerships and datasets has never been more important in the age of AI.”