Automating intellectual freedom: Artificial intelligence, bias, and the information landscape

IF 1 Q3 INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE
Catherine Smith
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Abstract

Anxieties over automation and personal freedom are challenging libraries’ role as havens of intellectual freedom. The introduction of artificial intelligence into the resource description process creates an opportunity to reshape the digital information landscape—and loss of trust by library users. Resource description necessarily manipulates a library’s presentation of information, which influences the ways users perceive and interact with that information. Human catalogers inevitably introduce personal and cultural biases into their work, but artificial intelligence may perpetrate biases on a previously unseen scale. The automation of this process may be perceived as a greater threat than the manipulation produced by human operators. Librarians must understand the risks of artificial intelligence and consider what oversight and countermeasures are necessary to mitigate the harm to libraries and their users before ceding resource description to artificial intelligence in place of the “professional considerations” the IFLA Statement on Libraries and Intellectual Freedom calls for in providing access to library materials.
自动化知识自由:人工智能、偏见和信息景观
对自动化和个人自由的担忧正在挑战图书馆作为知识自由避风港的角色。在资源描述过程中引入人工智能创造了重塑数字信息景观的机会,并失去了图书馆用户的信任。资源描述必须操纵图书馆的信息表示,这影响用户感知信息和与信息交互的方式。人类编目人员不可避免地会在工作中引入个人和文化偏见,但人工智能可能会以前所未有的规模造成偏见。这一过程的自动化可能被视为比人工操作产生的操作更大的威胁。图书馆员必须了解人工智能的风险,并考虑在将资源描述交给人工智能以取代国际图联《图书馆与知识自由声明》在提供图书馆资料访问时所要求的“专业考虑”之前,需要采取哪些监管和对策来减轻对图书馆及其用户的伤害。
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IFLA JOURNAL-INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS
IFLA JOURNAL-INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE-
CiteScore
2.70
自引率
15.40%
发文量
41
期刊介绍: IFLA Journal is an international journal which publishes original peer reviewed articles, a selection of peer reviewed IFLA conference papers, and news of current IFLA activities. Content is selected to reflect the variety of the international information profession, ranging from freedom of access to information, knowledge management, services to the visually impaired and intellectual property. The IFLA Journal aims to promote and support the aims and core values of IFLA as the global voice of the library and information profession by providing authoritative coverage and analysis of the activities of IFLA and its various constituent bodies and members, and those of other bodies with similar aims and interests.
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