🔍 In this episode of Humans of AI, Juha Henriksson explores how artificial intelligence is transforming the cultural heritage sector. He discusses how AI can accelerate digitisation, metadata creation, and access to archives, while raising important questions around trust, provenance, copyright, and data protection. The conversation also looks at the emerging role of agentic AI and how cultural heritage institutions can work more closely with researchers and creative industries to bring collections to life in new ways.

Artificial Intelligence is often portrayed as a disruptive force — but what if it could also become a guardian of our collective memory? Humans of AI, a video series by Information Labs and funded by Internet Archive Europe, explores this question by showcasing the people and projects redefining how we read, remember, and reimagine culture in the digital age.

Through concise, story-driven capsules, the series dives into the real stories of innovation that connect human creativity and machine intelligence — from handwriting recognition to national-scale archives and open-source AI models.

Humans of AI paints a vivid portrait of technology as a creative partner — one that keeps the world’s cultural memory alive, dynamic, and unmistakably human