1. URGENT: ENSURING
AN ETHICAL AI
INCLUDING CHATGPT
Stephen Abram, MLS

2. AGENDA
Introduction
Are we testing right?
Towards a New Lens
My Point . . .

3. INTRODUCTION
Stephen Abram, MLS
CEO
Lighthouse Consulting, Inc.
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5. BEFORE WE TALK
ABOUT EQUITY
AND AI, WE MUST
FIRST
UNDERSTAND AI
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6. WE’VE BEEN THROUGH THIS
BEFORE – AND SO MANY TIMES!
“
When something innovative arrives, we try to
understand it through the lenses of the old ways.
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OUR HISTORY OF ADOPTING
INNOVATION
• Locate
• Retrieve
• Retrieve
• Identify
• Find and retrieve record
• Find record
• Search and Discover
• Find answers
• Ask, learn, create
• Retrieval
• Known item retrieval with shallow
subject and classification metadata
• Known item retrieval
• Search server directories
• Search directories
• Search federated databases
• Search using complex algorithms
sometimes based on popularity, SEO,
sponsors, or ads
• Answer inquiries though chat and
engineered prompts to write a natural
language response
• Card Catalogue
• OPAC
• Online citation databases
• Online full-text databases
• Internet 1: Gopher, Archie,
Veronica
• Yahoo! Directory search
• Federated Search
• Google and Algorithmic
Search
• AI, Machine Learning,
ChatGPT
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9. WHAT IS THE
COMMON THREAD?
We struggle to frame the challenge!
We use the lens and techniques of the past to try
to understand innovative things that are very
different.
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10. TODAY’S CHALLENGE CONVERSATION
WHAT IS
NATURAL
INTELLIGENCE?
Is recall enough?
Can it really be
outsourced?
WHAT IS
GENERAL
INTELLIGENCE?
Where are the limits
of artificial general
intelligence?
WHAT IS
HUMAN WORK?
When we have a
guide-on-the-side,
can it reflect our
values, strengths, and
culture(s)?
WHAT IS
EMOTIONAL
INTELLIGENCE?
Will we ever see true
feelings – or will it be
performative and
manipulative?
WHAT DOES IT
MEAN TO BE
HUMAN?
????

11. MY POINTS TO
START OUR
LEARNING
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Recognize when a new tool is a major innovation. Then
evaluate them through the lens of what they try to be.
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12. MY POINTS TO
START OUR
LEARNING
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Consider the ethical and moral implications but don’t
judge too soon on science fiction fear and speculation.
Attempt to be part of the process.
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13. MY POINTS TO
START OUR
LEARNING
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Understand that AI – especially ChatGPT – is NOT a
search engine like Bing and Google. Look further out to
Workflow as a co-pilot or guide-on-the-side.
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14. MY POINTS TO
START OUR
LEARNING
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PLAY! Learn. Then judge in context.
Support the guardrails.
Look for what’s not there . . .
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15. WHOM DO YOU TRUST?
Or whom would you trust to guide, regulate, and grow ethically?
What international organizations?
What professions?
What governments?
What companies?
What people?
What group?
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16. THANK YOU
Stephen Abram, MLS
stephen.abram@gmail.com
www.stephenslighthouse.com
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