Jenny Simonds-Spellmann
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What museums and archives can learn from children about invisible algorithms

What a school project on invisible algorithms suggests about AI in cultural institutions.

Jenny Simonds-Spellmann. 1 min read

Abstract illustration representing systems that shape what we see without showing themselves — used as the note image for invisible algorithms.

In Seeing the Algorithm, a project with Freie Schule Pankow, children explore systems that shape what they see without ever showing themselves. [One observation from the children]

Cultural institutions face the same question as they bring AI into cataloguing, search and research: when a system decides what surfaces from a collection, who can see that choice, and who can challenge it?

[2–3 sentences: what this means for museums, libraries and archives]

See the Trust by Design case study · [Seeing the Algorithm site URL]

  • Cultural institutions
  • AI Literacy
  • Human-Centred AI
  • Responsible AI
  • Invisible algorithms
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