AI and Public Archives Collaborative Leadership for Responsible Adoption

AI and Public Archives Collaborative Leadership for Responsible Adoption

Keywords:artificial-intelligence, libraries, archives, museums, ethics
Abstract:AI and Public Archives Collaborative Leadership for Responsible Adoption This panel aims to address the measures that cultural heritage institutions must undertake to ensure that their approaches to AI adoption are inclusive and equitablePanelists from Virginia Techthe National Archives and Records Administrationthe Smithsonian Institutionand the Library of Congress will provide an overview of the current state of AI in large public-serving librariesarchivesand museums and will lead a discussion on how to incorporate AI in a responsible mannerThe discussion builds on the panelistsongoing work to critically examine the potential impacts and implications of the use of AI technology by cultural heritage institutions and strategies for addressing and mitigating its negative effectsThe panel will engage the audience in a group discussion that aims to consider possible biases and harms that may arise from the use of automated technologiesbuild inclusive practices in AI development and implementationand form new partnerships to promote the use of ethical AI in librariesarchivesand museumsLibrary AutomationBy using AI and machine learning automation text analysisimage recognitionand metadata generationRetrieval and IndexingAI and machine learning can automate metadata generationthereby enhancing the search and indexing function of digital setsInstificational CollectionThe application of AI in the curatorial digital collection is mentioned in the articlewhich may involve institutional collectionsespecially considering which technologies may affect priority or exclusionMachine LearningThe article refers to technological progressrapid growth of digital collectionand methods that require more effective management and provide these collection methodsso that the interest in machine learning and AI in librariesarchives and museums has increasedThe article also mentioned that these institutions are researching and implementing new technologies and digital methods to support their tasksModel recognitionThe article refers to the use of AI and machine learning to automatically complete the tasks such as text analysisimage recognitionmetadata generationetcThese tasks usually involve mode recognition