Your Name and Title: Chris Markman, Digital Services Manager
Library, School, or Organization Name: Palo Alto City Library
Co-Presenter Name(s): Melisa Mendoza, Nick Beber
Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Palo Alto, CA
Language in Which You Will Present: English
Target Audience(s): Library Students, Workers, and Developers
Short Session Description (one line): A solutions-focused session on what it would take for Generative AI to meet proffessional standards.
Full Session Description (as long as you would like)
What would it take for AI to be a truly library‑grade technology? Is it possible to steer it towards public good rather than public spectacle?
In this session we’ll share our research on the top three (of many) issues currently in the way and how they could be solved:
- User privacy risks like profiling and auditability
- The “AI mindshift” problem and cognitive offloading
- Copyright concerns and fair use doctrine
Along the way we’ll show how many of these issues are not impossible to solve, but they will take effort to get there. Using lessons from tools and practices libraries have long relied on, we'll move past the hype and think about how to build the AI tools we want.
Websites / URLs Associated withh Your Session: https://library.cityofpaloalto.org/ai/
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