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AI, Authenticity, and Archives
This project addresses the conceptual and practical interface between artificial intelligence and core archival imperatives. The project encompasses collaboration with the Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet) and the Swedish National Heritage Board (Riksantikvarieämbetet); the project develops AI-based approaches that respect and operationalise fundamental archival principles, such as diplomatics, classification, and authenticity. Through exploring issues of authenticity, heritage futures, and the fight against misinformation, this work contributes both to the archival profession and to public debates on trust in digital memory.
Publications
Foka, A., Griffin, G., Ortiz Pablo, D., et al. (2025). Tracing the bias loop: AI, cultural heritage and bias-mitigating in practice. AI & Society, 40, 5835–5847. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-025-02349-z
Foka, A., & von Bonsdorff, J. (2025). AI and Image: Critical Perspectives on the Application of Technology on Art and Cultural Heritage. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Foka, A., & Griffin, G. (2024). AI, Cultural Heritage, and Bias: Some Key Queries That Arise from the Use of GenAI. Heritage, 7(11), 6125-6136. https://doi.org/10.3390/heritage7110287
Griffin, G., Wennerström, E. & Foka, A. AI and Swedish Heritage Organisations: challenges and opportunities. AI & Society: The Journal of Human-Centred Systems and Machine Intelligence, 39, 2359–2372 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01689-y
Foka, A., Eklund, L., Løvlie, A. S., & Griffin, G. (2023). Critically assessing AI/ML for cultural heritage: Potentials and challenges. In Handbook of critical studies of artificial intelligence (pp. 815–826).
Foka, A., Attemark, J., & Wahlberg, F. (2022). Women’s metadata, semantic web, ontologies and AI: Potentials in critically enriching Carl Sahlin’s industrial history collection. In Emerging technologies, museums: Mediating difficult heritage (pp. 23–41).
Heintz, F., Gulliksen, J., Loufti, A., & Foka, A. (2022). Digital spetskompetens 2035 : Framtidsanalys för kompetensförsörjningen av digital spetskompetens. Retrieved from https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-484329
Foka, A., Eklund, L., Lowe, A., Skinner, M., & Løvlie, A. S. (2020). AI for digitalisation of cultural heritage: Potentials and ethical challenges. Paper presented at the 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW), Siegen, Germany.