Published by: Andrew Wiegert, June 9th, 2025

As generative AI and deepfakes reshape the information landscape, what becomes of authenticity in archives? That’s the provocative heart of the International Archives Week 2025 webinar hosted by the ICA: “Access and Integrity in the Digital Age: Archives, AI, and Authenticity.”

This free, global online event dives into the ethical, legal, and technological tensions surrounding how we define, prove, and preserve authenticity in the digital era. Experts from across the archival and AI fields will tackle questions like:

Can archival description remain trustworthy when augmented by machine learning?

How do we ensure long-term integrity when content is born-digital, altered, or created by AI?

What new strategies and safeguards are emerging for access, provenance, and truth?

Ideal for archivists, information professionals, digital humanists, and technologists, this webinar promises to be a thought-provoking and forward-looking conversation that’s part philosophy, part policy, and all relevance.

If you care about the future of archival truth in a world shaped by artificial intelligence, you won’t want to miss it.

https://www.ica.org/event/iaw2025-webinar-access-and-integrity-in-the-digital-age-archives-ai-and-authenticity