Web & AI Interest Group (WebAI IG)

Welcome to the Web & AI Interest Group (WebAI IG) repository!

We are delighted to have you join us. The mission of the Web & AI Interest Group is to provide a forum to explore and discuss how emerging Artificial Intelligence (AI) related technologies are impacting and intersecting with Web technologies and consider how the community could collaborate to shape these evolutions for the benefit of web users.

Everyone who participates in the WebAI IG is expected to behave in accordance with the W3C Code of Conduct.

Table of Contents

• How to Get Involved & Contribute
• Upcoming Work
• Resources & Communication
• Background Reading

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How to Get Involved & Contribute

This GitHub repository is a central hub for our collaborative work. We welcome your input and participation.

Have a new idea, concern, or proposal related to AI & the Web?

Please open a new Issue to start a discussion in this repository. This can include:

• New use cases or requirements
• Potential risks or opportunities
• Architectural suggestions
• Feedback on existing work
• Pointers to new industry developments

We encourage early discussion — even rough ideas are welcome.

Contributing

You can contribute by:

• Participating in discussions on GitHub issues
• Joining meetings and presenting ideas or prototypes
• Helping draft IG Notes, use cases, and analyses
• Providing insights from industry, academia, or standards work

The IG’s process is open and collaborative, and contributions from all backgrounds are welcome. As work items and deliverables are scoped, This group will create dedicated branches, projects or repositories for collaborative discussion.

Upcoming Work

Potential Deliverables

The group explores various topics that may lead to future standardization work or informative reports. Our current charter outlines several potential deliverables, including (but not limited to):

• Ethical Principles for Web Machine Learning (joint deliverable with the Web Machine Learning Working Group)
• The Agentic Web: risks and opportunities
• AI & the Web: Understanding and managing the impact of Machine Learning models on the Web
• Threat Model for Agentic AI Web Browsers (joint deliverable with the Threat Modeling Community Group)
• Threat Model for AI in the Browser (joint deliverable with the Threat Modeling Community Group)

Workshop

This group will coordinate on the AI Agents & Web Browsers workshop.

Resources & Communication

• Public Mailing List: [email protected] - The primary channel for announcements and broad discussions.

  • View the archive

• W3C Tools Page: All group tools (calendar, meetings, etc.) are listed here:

  • https://www.w3.org/groups/ig/webai/tools/

• W3C Account Linkage: To contribute effectively, please link your GitHub and W3C accounts:

  • https://www.w3.org/users/myprofile/connectedaccounts

• Optional communication channels: (Slack:https://w3ccommunity.slack.com/archives/C0A137BSSF6)

Background Reading

To understand our scope and goals, please refer to:

• Charter: https://www.w3.org/2025/10/webai-ig-charter.html
• Initial Motivating Documents & Deliverables: See the Deliverables section of the charter.

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We look forward to collaborating with you to explore the future of AI on the Web.

The Web & AI Interest Group