[arin-ppml] Slow summer....

[Mike Burns]

Hi Fernando,

 

I welcome your thoughts.

It may get harder and harder to distinguish between polish and outright verbatim echoing of AI posts by a human interlocutor.

The open mailing list is designed to solicit the best arguments, should we ignore the best arguments if they come from AI?

 

It seems likely to be that we will be dealing with this situation at some point.

 

Regards,

Mike

 

 

 

From: ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net> On Behalf Of Fernando Frediani
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2026 1:49 PM
To: arin-ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Slow summer....

 

Surely no AI should post in a human discussion mail list. It doesn't make much sense
If people want to use AI to polish their text no problem, as long messages are reviewed and sent by humans.

Mail list should not be treated a destination for automated systems to send message, just for human discussions.

Fernando

On 7/23/2026 2:09 PM, Mike Burns via ARIN-PPML wrote:

Hello List,

 

Based on a current discussion on the AFRINIC policy development list, I wanted to discuss the use of AI to post to policy lists.

 

Because these are open forums handled by email, it is quite trivial for any AI to be echoed to the list by a real person, or even post directly in the guise of a real person.

I have used translators to help me post, I expect more and more will use AI to polish, if not create their posts.

 

So simply banning use of AI is not the answer, but it brings up some questions.

 

Is this the camel’s nose of AI into human government?

Should we empower an AI to post directly, or be callable like ask grok?

Should we treat the AI posts just like any other post?

 

I am not discussing abuse of the list through repeated  AI posts restating the same argument and I assume lists have existing tools to exclude certain posters who do abuse.

 

Any thoughts on using AI on stakerholder governance lists?

 

Regards,

Mike

 

 

 

 





 





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