An Update on Developing The Public Interest Corpus

Authors Alliance and the Northeastern University Library (NUL) are working with a diverse set of stakeholders to develop an actionable startup plan for a public interest training corpus for artificial intelligence. “Developing The Public Interest Corpus” is advanced through a series of iterative planning workshops and other related meetings with librarians, disciplinary researchers, publishers, technologists, authors, and more. This presentation provides an update on the effort to date, synthesizing takeaways from the first project workshop held at NUL in February. The workshop included discussion of the project’s: (1) principles and goals, (2) target audiences, training data needs, and potential partners (3) legal and policy challenges, and (4) business model, sustainability, and governance.