Artificial Intelligence – The Perils and the Opportunities

Artificial Intelligence is changing the publishing business. It influences the selection and evaluation of texts, generates and independently corrects texts and changes the entire publications process. Will machines decide in future whether and which books are published? Will Artificial Intelligence replace the publisher’s personality? Who is to monitor content for its accuracy in the future? What does that mean for authors and the future of literature?

Emma House has extensive insider knowledge about the impact of changes due to Artificial Intelligence in the publishing trade, in libraries and in the media. In discussion with Rosie Goldsmith, she offers insights into a world in which smart machines are beginning radically to reinterpret the value of human work.

***BIOGRAPHIE***

Emma House is an international publishing consultant advising clients in publishing and business institutions. She worked for 26 years for book and magazine publishers; she was Head of International Development at the London Book Fair and Deputy CEO of the Publishers Association. She is on the advisory board for Oxford Brookes University’s International Centre for Publishing, the publishing technology organization Simbi and the British non-profit organization Civic as part of the Future Libraries Initiative.