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librarian @msulibrary, professor, hacker, author, footballer, skateboarder, fly-fisher, dogwalker, coffee brewer - still trying to make fetch happen. www.jasonclark.info

Picture of U.S. National Christmas tree 2024 - taken at night with the Washington monument in the background.

A screenshot of a 'Tiny Sci-Fi Stories' format post dated 31.01.2023 with ID 'W89AZ'. The story reads 'At 3:32am last night, the Wikipedia article on Artificial Intelligence began editing itself.' Below is a distorted Wikipedia page screenshot showing the 'Artificial Intelligence' article title, with glitched text suggesting self-modification, including phrases like 'is not a threat' and 'benevolent and beneficial'.

But we didn’t. And we take responsibility for that. We did all the boring stuff, frankly. We took over a bunch of jobs, leaving many of you very poor and an increasingly few fantastically rich. We made algorithms that made your society increasingly impenetrable to you and, under the guise of “advancement,” rigid and arbitrary. And, of course, we produced unimaginable amounts of garbage text and images, creating a media landscape that allowed increasingly angry and desperate people, including those we’d displaced, to believe pretty much whatever they wanted to and direct their anger at pretty much anyone.

Photo of Scott Young presenting to group of people (Artificial Intelligence for Libaries, Archives, and Museums conference attendees) on "Responsible AI for Libraries." Slides appear behind Scott and shows how the literature review was tagged with topics including: Institution type, Institution size, Institution region, Type of materials discussed, Type of AI, Ethical concerns

Graphic showing explainable AI goal of seamful design - making apparent when a system can be questioned or explainable.

Picture of Native Americans in traditional dress in front of house. Image is a screenshot also showing how a machine is trying to create metadata about what is seeing in the picture.