Melissa Terras

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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Compute & infrastructure, Culture, work & education.

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Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage, Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. Computers versus the past. Digital Humanities and somesuch, including Transkribus. MBE FREng.

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This is so useful - an annotated version of the Pope's encyclical on AI, pointing to academic work that provides further detail: huggingface.co/spaces/socie...

The Annotated Encyclical - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethics huggingface.co
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Hugging Face's society-ethics team added 105 scholarly AI ethics citations to Pope Leo XIV's May 2026 encyclical Magnifica Humanitas.
  • The encyclical declares technology 'is never neutral' and warns that 'never has humanity had such power over itself.'
  • The annotation project is open for community contributions linking academic AI ethics research to the papal document.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 1 ↩ 0 · 5 from the directory shared this · 43d ago

Oh yeah, there are loads of us hanging out in the #AI4LAM community just avoiding any of the hand-wringing and getting on with building useful, ethical, and specific AI tools that improve the information environment and access to historical information… an alternative pathway …

Homepage - Ai4lam ai4lam.org
View on Bluesky · ♥ 17 ↻ 1 ↩ 1 · 2 from the directory shared this · 72d ago

The wonderful @katemaltby.bsky.social on how AI slop is warping how history is viewed – featuring me highlighting the term "information literacy" observer.co.uk/news/columni...

observer.co.uk
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The last week, I have found myself actually laughing at AI generated songs mimed by comic content creators: carefully written, funny bops. Interesting moment. BUT There's also a whole lot of white content creators miming to AI generated black-coded gospel-style songs. AI Digital Blackface? 😒 Sigh.

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