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Exploring cultural heritage in the age of artificial intelligence

In pursuit of Heritage Art Architecture Culture Ethical Governance Identity History Humanity The Sacred in the Secular The Secular in the Sacred Understanding Universality

An Introductory Guide
STORIES COMING SOON
"We need to ask ourselves what shared set of tools, practices, tactics, infrastructures do we need to build collectively?"
Ben Vershbow
NYPL Labs, Wikimedia Foundation
"You need to go beyond the traditional approach of problem-solving, to the more complicated one of question asking . . ."
Genevieve Bell
3A Institute | ANU
"Black engagements with technology occurred primarily within the musical sphere … to mix and remix, rewire and rerig things."
Louis Chude-Sokei
Boston University
"That's what I want to do, ultimately: figure out a way to get the world engaged with discovery and protecting these ancient sites."
Sarah Parcak
GlobalXxplorer
"Historic preservationists must be at the table at which the future of intelligence is now being programmed."
Greg Werkheiser
Cultural Heritage Partners, ArtGlass
"Many AI systems are struggling with different cultural context. Can stories help machines build cultural IQ?"
Davar Ardalan
IVOW
"Collaborative open data platforms support scholarship and education, and enable new forms of knowledge . . .”
Douglas McCarthy
OpenGLAM, Europeana.eu
"I’d love to see more museums making crowdsourcing games because they’re a great way to engage audiences."
Mia Ridge
British Library
"Understanding, then, what it takes to move from paper to data that can be queried, mixed and aggregated is really crucial. . ."
Matt Knutzen
New York Public Library Map Division
"Data and data sets are not objective; they are creations of human design. We give numbers their voice . . . and define their meaning through our interpretations."
Kate Crawford
AI Now Institute NYU
"We’re more than numbers. We’re people,
and we have dreams and ideas.
And reducing us to statistics is something that’s done at our peril."
R. Luke DuBois
NYU Tandem School of Engineering
"At the core of my research is the premise that the effect of machine learning on our engagement with images is fundamentally changing our society.”
Emily Spratt
Data Science Institute
"We can put AI to innovative uses that can help communities expand access to culture and explore new perspectives and connections through shared experiences."
Brad Smith
Microsoft
"There are a lot of social and culture-specific norms that needs to be respected . . . you have to understand which principles you want to code. So, whose principles?"
Francesca Rossi
IBM AI Ethics, Partnership on AI
"The more digital has embraced culture,
and culture has embraced digital, the greater the increase in physical footfall across cultural institutions."
Amit Sood
Google Cultural Institute
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