WordPress Contributors Discuss How Core Can Better Enable AI Innovation
As AI-powered technology is rapidly evolving to exponentially extend human capabilities, WordPress contributors do not want the platform to get left behind. AI-powered website creation could even become a threat to its existence, more than a competing CMS, if WordPress doesn’t ensure the platform is easily pluggable for AI-powered extensions. A new discussion on the Core developer’s blog asks what WordPress can do to better enable AI innovation. “WordPress Core always seeks to provide a stable foundation for folks to build upon directly and extend as they see fit,” Automattic-sponsored core contributor Anne McCarthy said. “Even if a new technology is not actually included in Core, the project aims to enable innovation and progress through extension (plugins, themes, etc.) wherever possible and sensible.” McCarthy shared a video of what it might look like to have AI integrated into Gutenberg’s experimental command center to build out pages based on AI-suggested designs. She asked three questions of contributors: How would you want to see Core updated so it can be extended in ways accessible to AI technologies? For those building, or trying to build, with AI today, how does Core currently enable or hinder this effort? Are there any concerns that you think the…
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