The Georgia Library Association Carterette Series Webinars presents
Responsibly Implementing AI in Libraries and Archives: Introducing a Decision-Making Tool for Practitioners
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
2pm Eastern (11am Pacific | 12pm Mountain | 1pm Central)
Cost: Free
Description: Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in libraries and archives as a powerful tool for enhancing metadata, improving search and discovery, recommending resources, powering library chatbots, and more. However, AI systems also have the potential to cause social and ethical problems. AI may incorporate surveillance technologies that threaten user privacy, AI can provide misinformation that looks real, and AI reflects and amplifies the biases of our society due to biased training data.
In response to these issues, the IMLS-funded Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives project has created a prototype tool that aims to guide practitioners through responsible implementation of AI. The prototype is based on new research conducted by the team, including a literature analysis, case studies, workshops with librarians and library users, and testing with library and archives practitioners. The tool takes the shape of a decision-making guide that incorporates LIS professional values such as Privacy and Consent, Resource Responsibility, Organizational Transparency, Literacy, and Access. The goal of the tool is to help practitioners implement AI in alignment with our professional values and reduce harm to our communities.
During this webinar, members of the project team will discuss research results and introduce the prototype Responsible AI tool. The final version of the tool will be released in 2025.
About the Presenters:Sara Mannheimer is Associate Professor and Data Librarian at Montana State University, where she helps shape practices and theories for data curation, data sharing, and data discovery. She provides data management resources and guidance for researchers, manages MSU Dataset Search, and is active in the Data Discovery Collaboration. Her research examines the social, ethical, and technical issues of a data-driven world. She is the Project Director of the IMLS-funded Responsible AI in Libraries & Archives project.
Yasmeen Shorish is a Professor and Director of Scholarly Communications Strategies at James Madison University Libraries. Her research focuses on epistemological justice in scholarly communications, data ethics and privacy, and the relationship between information access and power and privilege. She was part of the Mellon-funded Collections as Data: Part to Whole grant team, the IMLS-funded Responsible AI grant team, and serves on the ACRL Board of Directors and SPARC Steering Committee.
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The session will be recorded and available on the Carterette Series Webinars site approximately 1 week after the live program.
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