Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Joining Forces: Introducing the Statement of Shared Practice

When Leo S. Lo began his tenure as University Librarian and Dean of Libraries at UVA in 2025, he learned that artificial intelligence (AI) companies were already running out of “training data” — open material across the internet (books, webpages, articles, spreadsheets, and more) to absorb into their generative models for content creation.

Protecting what remains: Introducing the UVA Archival AI Protocol

In late January, Dean of Libraries Leo Lo kicked off UVA Library’s new “Ethical Dimension of AI Literacy” series, which, this spring, will feature numerous presentations by AI scholars from across the University.

Gamechanger: Can AI accurately transcribe primary source documents?

There are more than 13 million manuscripts held and maintained by UVA’s Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library (along with hundreds of thousands of maps, rare books, photographs, broadsides, and more) but the majority of those documents have not been digitized or transcribed.

From Cavalier Daily: New University Dean of Libraries Leo Lo discusses role of AI in education

The University of Virginia Library was pleased to welcome Leo Lo as University Librarian and Dean of Libraries in September of this year. The Cavalier Daily, UVA’s student-run news outlet, talked to Dr. Lo in early October about his hopes for the future and experience so far at UVA. 

AI is not going away; here’s how to use it sustainably

“Artificial intelligence systems are thirsty,” writes Leo S. Lo in a recent column for The Conversation, an independent news organization.