Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat?
British Library, London.
Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat?
23 January 2025, 19.00-20.30
Pigott Theatre at the Britsh Library
The impact of digital technologies on libraries is an ongoing process with libraries providing many digital services - from access to digital content to a range of digital discovery tools. There is an expectation that the opportunities afforded by AI will further improve library services. However, the adoption of AI also means that libraries might be adopting technologies that pose a challenge to libraries’ fundamental commitments to the respect for privacy, transparency and legal use of content. For example, many libraries have already faced the dilemma of whether to allow the use of their digital content for the generative AI training.
Join us in this discussion looking into how AI might become more present in the libraries, and how libraries should approach AI if they wish to remain trusted information providers.
Chaired by Timandra Harkness, this is part of a series of AI debates bringing together experts from different fields to debate issues spotlit by AI developments