Benjamin Charles Germain Lee, an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington and founder of the Lab for Computing Cultural Heritage, is the UNL Libraries 2026 Visiting Scholar.
On April 15, at 2:30 p.m. he will present on the state of the artificial intelligence field with a focus on efforts to apply AI to library collections. Informed by his own research on “computing cultural heritage” and teaching focused on cross-campus AI literacy, he will reflect on future directions for this collective work, and how libraries are uniquely positioned to contribute to the development of AI systems while also embodying library values through experimentation and even refusal.
See the calendar entry for more information.