Technology 701
Core Competencies:
A. demonstrate effective use of current technologies
B. Explain the Impact and Potential of Current and Emerging Information Technologies for Management and Delivery of Services
C. organize and provide digital resources and services
D. Evaluate and Select Appropriate Technology for Specific Information Services or Applications
E. Analyze Issues, Concepts, and Challenges Related to the Impact of Technology on Information Ethics and Policy
Description
For this core competency, I was looking at how Artificial Intelligence affects learning, and how Artificial Intelligence as a technology could affect ethics in libraries. In this document, I explore some ideas with both positives and negatives of Artificial Intelligence and ideas, from when I took this course, that come from popular culture. This assignment also explores how Artificial Intelligence in academic or public libraries, such as in the movie, "The Time Machine," based on the novel by H.G. Wells, could eventually replace librarians. Since writing this document I have also become interested in where the line is to be drawn when it comes to Artificial Intelligence and University Education. Should university students and even professors be flagged for plagiarism if they over-use AI technology such as ChatGPT? This is something I would like to address in further research on my own.
technology core competency assignment.docx
Analysis
My paper starts off with the ALA's or American Library Association's idea that those working in Artificial Intellegence, "Seeks, to Create," intelligent machines that work and react more like humans. At the time I wrote this paper, artificial intelligence was not such advanced as it is now and I recorded that a robot had recently had a victory in the game "Go" against a human counterpart, Lee Sodel, and marked the beginning of artificial intelligence being just as creative and almost as cognizant as a human.
Reflection
Engaging in this assignment allowed me to explore how the new, at the time, area of Artificial Intelligence, could be put to both ethical and unethical use. In movies such as, "The Time Machine," show artificial intelligence in the future running a library. I note that in the movie "Bicentennial Man," artificial intelligence could almost become human an replace humans all together. Another movie exploring this is "Ex Machina." Finally, "I Robot," based off of the great Isaac Asimov's work, addresses how robots (with their own artificial intelligence) should be coded with ethics, and, therefore, we don't have to fear artificial intelligence in libraries as they would not replace humans but live along side us. Asimov, in his book on which the movie, "I Robot" was based posits three rules governing artificial intelligence. First, "
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law." As I mentioned above, I would like to explore further issues with AI or Artificial Intelligence and plagiarism in my own personal research, however, when it comes to how AI should be in modern times, I think that Isaac Asimov's three rules should be used so that humans can live and work along-side AI and robots.To improve my future practice, I would look into how current AI, like ChatGPT, that is now being used by companies, and higher education. I plan to go for a Phd in Information Science so I would be looking at AI as it progresses when I do research in the future on how humans can work alongside AI instead of AI taking over work completely.