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There Is No AI Without IA: In Conversation with Carol Smith

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An interview with Carol Smith, Senior Research Scientist in Human-Machine Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, in which she talks about how she practices information architecture in her artificial intelligence and emerging technologies work. She reviews the importance of information structure and organization, the use of language and how that impacts structure, understanding users, and ethics in artificial intelligence.

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    Smith, C. (2018). IA in the Age of AI. 19th ASIS&T Information Architecture, Chicago, USA. https://www.slideshare.net/carologic/ia-in-the-age-of-ai-embracing-abstraction-and-change-at-ia-summit-2018.

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    xView 2 Challenge. Software Engineering Institute. Carnegie Mellon University. https://www.sei.cmu.edu/research-capabilities/all-work/display.cfm?customel_datapageid_4050=295280.

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    Designing ethical AI experiences: Checklist and agreement. Software Engineering Institute. Carnegie Mellon University. https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/library/asset-view.cfm?assetid=636620.

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Rice, S.A., Resmini, A. (2021). There Is No AI Without IA: In Conversation with Carol Smith. In: Resmini, A., Rice, S.A., Irizarry, B. (eds) Advances in Information Architecture. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63205-2_20

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