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Hello Kym, Normally I wouldn't do this but I already tossed all reason out the window.

You see I am currently in the middle of an exam and I have chosen to write a report on AI and more specifically how AI effects the internet. While I was working out a few problems I like to answer in my report, a question crossed my mind, Could AI replace human Admins and Mods on web forums, and could they do the job better? Imagine if a website like Reddit had an AI admin (if they don't already) how would that effect the website in question? (Reddit is just one example, feel free to think how it would effect any website, even KYM)

I like to hear you thoughts on this and perhaps use some of your views and arguments in my report.

Another website I frequent I've been moderating since 2011, and it must have been Month Two where I've found that there are rare times where reported material can be objectively acted upon. Spam, hacking, and flooding? Sure, use AI to quickly and succinctly dispatch those sumbitches. That's partially the job of moderators.

The other chunk of a moderator's job is Mediation, however, and that takes some serious critical thinking. The range of circumstance changes from case to case, and you can't really use Precedence as a mule for easier decision making. It would take lines upon lines upon lines of code for AI to make as accurate an action as an informed decision made by a human being. The reasons that this user is making a fuss over another may be as shallow as it appears, yet one can't just write an If statement to automatically act upon it.