Responses to generative AI
Widespread debates about the future of artificial intelligence and the need for ethical frameworks and regulatory policies to mitigate potential harms, re-ignited in 2022 by OpenAI’s first release of generative artificial intelligence (AI) system ChatGPT, continue to receive attention by scholars and media alike. This Insights and Signals Report is apart of a series that will focus on evolving discussions centered around artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI (genAI) and large language models (LLMs), and the implications these may have for open access and open social scholarship. Items discussed in this report include a brief introduction to generative artificial intelligence; the artificial intelligence act passed in May 2024 by the Council of the European Union; the inclusion of artificial intelligence in Canada’s Digital Charter Implementation Act (2022); several responses to AI in Canada from scholars, journals, post-secondary institutions, scholarly associations and granting agencies, as well as some core concerns raised by these groups; and responses from INKE partners John Willinsky (Founder, Public Knowledge Project) and John Maxwell (Associate Professor of Publishing at Simon Fraser University). The report concludes with provocations to consider some discursive silences, such as perspectives on data mining as an extractive colonial practice, and Indigenous data sovereignty.