Libraries, Trust and Disruptive Tech: Our "AI" Challenges

Librarians currently find themselves in an evolving technological environment where we are facing questions around misinformation, ethics, data privacy, intellectual property (such as copyright) and algorithmic bias.  The rapid development of “AI” and particularly “GenAI” tools brings significant challenges to libraries as well as enormous potential. We’ll take a look at some of these developments are and possible concerns regarding their adoption in (particularly academic) libraries, with a closer view of the cybersecurity vulnerabilities.