Location: Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, 100 Classroom North

Please join us for a discussion on Harvard Library’s recent work to explore the impact and opportunities of generative artificial intelligence on the discovery and production of knowledge. 

The session will be held on March 20, 2024, from 1:00-2:30 in Harvard Law School, Austin Hall, 100 Classroom North. If you are unable to stay for the entire session, you are welcome to attend a portion of the event. Session agenda is as follows: 

     AI at Harvard Library: Recent Explorations and Future Opportunities Agenda 

• Part I: Information Policy and Education 1PM 

  • Information Policy, Ethics, and the Law

  • Research on Student Use of ChatGPT 

  • Information Literacy and Academic Success 

• Part II: Technology and Tools 1:30PM (approximately) 

  • AI and our relationship to knowledge  

  • Talk with HOLLIS and other AI Opportunities and Experiments

As you know, generative AI is rapidly changing established practices in our work. Generative AI and research libraries share a fundamental promise: the ability to draw upon a broad corpus of existing information to answer questions and generate new information. In this equation, Harvard Library brings the fundamental value of access to information, and by that, we mean access to trustworthy information spanning centuries, regions, and voices around the globe. 

Over the past six months, Harvard Library has undertaken library-wide initiatives to explore various facets of generative AI in libraries. This includes work on information policy and ethics, research on student use of generative AI, information literacy and academic success, experimental tools and other technical innovations.  

We invite your questions, thoughts, and suggestions as we all continue to engage with generative AI.