Blog by Kate Murray: “Released in February 2026 as a product of the C2PA for G+LAM Community of Practice, the white paper “Content Authenticity and Provenance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Call-to-Action for the LAMs Community” (download PDF) advocates for libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) to take proactive and pragmatic steps to ensure that digital collections content, especially content impacted by AI at any point in its lifecycle, remains authentic, transparent, and verifiable from creation through access in order to meet the LAMs community’s mission of public trust.
While content authenticity and provenance (CAP) have long been archival principles, existing processes are increasingly impacted, or have the potential to be impacted, by AI-mediated workflows. There are growing expectations from researchers, donors, the public and heritage practitioners to document these impacts comprehensively and consistently by expanding/extending traditional content authenticity and provenance data to address/respond to/consider AI impacts.
This is a critical and decisive moment. The impact of AI on collections imposes risks that demand thoughtful collective attention. Even with the best intentions of maintaining transparency with CAP data, AI technologies introduce novel ethical, legal, and privacy threats. At the same time, AI is transforming, in real-time, the creation, organization and analysis of data at a pace that defies the LAMs community’s traditionally deliberative response to change…(More)”.
