XR Guild proposes an AI librarian for ethics resources

Benefits

Benefit: In a June 18, 2024 interview, XR Guild founder Avi Bar-Zeev described plans for an AI librarian that would return relevant papers and postmortems in response to ethical dilemmas, conditional on reliable retrieval. The Guild's annual report describes a 2025 library refresh with 220 resources. A public library entry visibly attributes its keywords to ChatGPT. These sources establish a proposed assistant and some AI-associated metadata work, but do not establish that the proposed librarian was deployed or that AI improved retrieval, learning, or ethical decisions. The 2022 date displayed on that library entry belongs to the underlying video, not the AI metadata. [1] [2] [3]
Category: Improved Knowledge Discovery
Status: intended [1] [2] [3]
Beneficiary groups: People. Organizations.
Expected?: Yes
Outcome identifiers: Not assessed
Beneficiaries: Not assessed
Reach: Not assessed
Distribution and access: Not assessed
Duration: Not assessed
Costs and harms: Not assessed

System: Proposed XR Guild AI librarian; ChatGPT-attributed catalog keywords; model versions unspecified [1] [2] [3]
Application developer: XR Guild volunteers; AI platform developer unspecified for proposed librarian
Workflow: Human volunteers curate the library. A public catalog entry attributes keywords to ChatGPT.
Relation to AI: AI is proposed as a retrieval interface over human-curated resources. A catalog entry separately attributes keywords to ChatGPT. No evaluation establishes an AI-caused discovery or decision improvement.
AI contribution: AI is proposed as a retrieval interface over human-curated resources. A catalog entry separately attributes keywords to ChatGPT. No evaluation establishes an AI-caused discovery or decision improvement. [1] [2] [3]
Model: Not assessed
Release: Not assessed
Role: Not assessed
Configuration: Not assessed
Inputs and outputs: Not assessed
Autonomy: Not assessed
Human oversight: Not assessed

Participants: Developer: XR Guild volunteers; AI platform developer unspecified for proposed librarian. Operator: XR Guild Library.
Jurisdictions: Not assessed
Ownership and control: Not assessed
Dependencies: Not assessed
Cross-border connections: Not assessed
Geopolitical implications: Not assessed

Conditions for replication: The proposed assistant must return genuine relevant resources, and readers need a way to verify them.
Later findings: Subsequent deployment and benefit outcomes have not been established by the reviewed sources.
Replication attempts: Not assessed
Availability: Not assessed
Institutional decision: Not assessed
Grounds: Not assessed
Action and result: Not assessed
Success criterion: Not assessed

Source numbers: Recorded value
Citations: Recorded value [1] [2] [3]
Source relationships: Recorded value [1] [2] [3]
Original evidence: The source review separates original evidence from repeated accounts and records material access limits. [1] [2] [3]
Access and versions: Recorded value [1] [2] [3]
Evidence links: Recorded value [1] [2] [3]
Evidence strength: Recorded value
Language: Not assessed
Supported findings: Not assessed
Missing evidence: Not assessed

Assessed benefits: People. Organizations.
Reasons: People: The reviewed material does not establish the magnitude of a benefit for this group. Organizations: The reviewed material does not establish the magnitude of a benefit for this group.
Observed or intended: Intended benefits. The depths describe their intended extent.
Fill: The deployer's account
Depth: Not assessed
Rubric: Not assessed
Assessor and date: Not assessed
Alternative assessments: Not assessed

Field: Library discovery and professional ethics resources.
Purpose: The proposed assistant would help professionals locate evidence about ethical dilemmas in the Guild library. [1] [2] [3]
Dates: Recorded value
Stage: proposed AI assistant; existing library [1] [2] [3]
Version: 8dd57dd0c29c5a0f970cc2fc2794acaa40fd8ac40b6065317d1b3b6e31b69285
Kind: Not assessed
Related entries: Not assessed