In a detailed panel discussion led by Jenni Matz, co-chair of the AMIA Oral History Committee and Director of the Television Academy Foundation's The Interviews oral history program, the focus was on the integration of AI in audiovisual collections, highlighting its advantages and challenges. The talk dove into a project at the 92nd Street Y that utilized AI tools for transcription, indexing, and named entity recognition to make event recordings more accessible, featuring authors reading their works. 92NY Archivist, Caitlin Biggers, explained the project's aim to make the 1500 hours of content more usable.

TheirStory CEO, Zack Ellis, shared the technical side, discussing the use of AI tools like Whisper for transcription, highlighting the importance of maintaining data privacy and security through AWS infrastructure. The conversation touched on the role of AI in improving accessibility, with examples of how it can aid in searching for themes or handling sensitive information. There was a discussion around the ethical implications of AI use, including informed consent, copyright issues, and the sharing of content online. They addressed concerns like decontextualization of content, and how to protect sensitive or private data, especially in older recordings where permission wasn't explicitly given for modern dissemination.