Library and Archives 101: AI and the False Promise of Control – Authors Alliance

"This is the first in a series of essays about the choices that knowledge institutions face as AI reshapes how their collections and resources are used. The people on various sides of these debates are, for the most part, deeply committed to access to knowledge — the disagreement is about means. Some believe that the best way to protect access to knowledge is to impose new conditions on how AI can use it and for what purposes. I think that approach is more likely to undermine access than to save it. This post in particular is about the risk of libraries and archives reimagining themselves as gatekeepers of AI-era access. To help contain these essays, we will be posting them as a series titled “AI & Access to Knowledge.” "