Responsible AI at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive: A Case Study

Abstract

We provide an overview of the use of machine-learning and artificial intelligence at the Vanderbilt Television News Archive (VTNA). After surveying our major initiatives to date, which include the full transcription of the collection using a custom language model deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), we address some ethical considerations we encountered, including the possibility of staff downsizing and misidentification of individuals in news recordings.

Keywords

• artificial intelligence
• AI
• audiovisual archives
• television news
• metadata automation