Training aims to add prominent Asian Americans to Wikipedia, a leading source of AI results
New York, NY — Ask AI about Harry Low — the first Chinese American judge in Northern California — and you might get a name and a title. You won’t get the full story of what he accomplished, what he had to overcome, or why it changed what was possible for an entire community. Now, multiply that gap across thousands of Asian American figures, organizations, milestones, and you start to see the current state of Asian American history.
The C100 Wikipedian Fellowship program, launching summer 2026, will train community and nonprofit leaders to write and edit Wikipedia pages so that Asian American history is documented in full at the source where AI learns it. The program is free, runs eight weeks, and requires no prior Wikipedia experience.
Wikipedia is a key training source for AI models, including ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. When Asian American leaders and contributions are missing from Wikipedia, or documented only in passing, that shallowness gets encoded into AI. A name. A job title. Not the full, documented human beings. Not the full gravity of what they’ve accomplished and why it matters.
The consequences of these omissions are real. Committee of 100’s research shows that 55% of Asian Americans are regularly asked where they are “really from,” 27% of Americans believe that people of Chinese descent are more loyal to China then the U.S., and 54% say that President Trump’s rhetoric about China negatively impacts the treatment of people of Chinese descent in the U.S. The fellowship program works to counter these assumptions by increasing the discoverability and depth of information on Asian Americans.
The fellowship, which will include 25 spots in each cohort, is free thanks to the generosity of The Serica Initiative and C100 member Sheldon Pang. The program will run for eight weeks and require a commitment of three to four hours per week. Community leaders, nonprofit employees and volunteers, and individuals involved with AAPI organizations are encouraged to apply. Applications are open now; the deadline to apply is July 3.
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