Sep 4, 2026 · 1 hr 1 min · 13 segments
What happens when the systems we rely on to find information stop simply retrieving answers and start generating them? Library science and AI governance specialist José Ruiz-Vázquez joins The…
José Ruiz-VázquezGuest
Howard AtkinHost
Mark LockwoodHost
Today, we're very lucky in the Collator Studio because we have a library science and AI governance specialist with us who has spent over two decades thinking professionally about how information is organized, accessed, and trusted.
His recent work asks why library science, with its long history of classification, privacy, and ethics, might contribute to some of the hardest problems emerging around artificial intelligence, which is an area of his most recent experience.
So you and I were talking off air about how I come from an information science background and library science background.
You are literally far more professional experienced than I because my experience is 20 years out of date.
Could you just maybe tell, we'll get to library science and AI in a bit, but could you maybe just start our listeners off with maybe where you are? And how you got there? Just take us a bit of that journey.
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Today, we're very lucky in the Collator Studio because we have a library science and AI governance specialist with us who has spent over two decades thinking professionally about how information is organized, accessed, and trusted.
His recent work asks why library science, with its long history of classification, privacy, and ethics, might contribute to some of the hardest problems emerging around artificial intelligence, which is an area of his most recent experience.
So you and I were talking off air about how I come from an information science background and library science background.
You are literally far more professional experienced than I because my experience is 20 years out of date.
Could you just maybe tell, we'll get to library science and AI in a bit, but could you maybe just start our listeners off with maybe where you are? And how you got there? Just take us a bit of that journey.
