Censorship, Artificial Intelligence, and AI Literacy: Responding to New Challenges in an Enduring Agenda for Libraries and Librarianship

Ridley, Michael and anderson, avram Censorship, Artificial Intelligence, and AI Literacy: Responding to New Challenges in an Enduring Agenda for Libraries and Librarianship., 2025 [Preprint]

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This paper focuses on AI censorship, an under addressed aspect of AI risk that intersects with the foundational library tenets of information literacy and intellectual freedom. AI censorship is a form of “automated censorship in which AI systems are used to selectively suppress or block specific types of information, content, or voices deemed undesirable to those controlling the AI.” This paper examines AI censorship in the context of existing threats and library principles. It explores specific techniques and methods of AI censorship. Lastly, it recommends adopting a critical AI literacy perspective that includes a political dimension essential to understanding AI censorship.

Item type:	Preprint
Keywords:	Generative AI, Large Language Models, Artificial Intelligence, AI Literacy, Censorship, Critical AI Literacy, AI, Risk
Subjects:	A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AA. Library and information science as a field. A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AB. Information theory and library theory. B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society. B. Information use and sociology of information > BD. Information society. B. Information use and sociology of information > BF. Information policy C. Users, literacy and reading. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CE. Literacy. C. Users, literacy and reading. > CZ. None of these, but in this section. G. Industry, profession and education. > GZ. None of these, but in this section. L. Information technology and library technology L. Information technology and library technology > LZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user:	avram anderson
Date deposited:	28 Jul 2025 02:13
Last modified:	28 Jul 2025 02:13
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/47035

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