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SUMMARY:Library Science Talk - Safeguarding Testimony Archives: An Ethical
  Impact Assessment Framework with Preliminary Red Team Validation
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Jennifer Victoria Scurrell\, Susan Nesbitt\, Broderi
 ck James McDonald\, Nathan Heath\n\nThis Talk will take place in English e
 xclusively on Zoom. Registration is not required to attend.\nAbstract:\nTe
 stimony archives preserving survivor and witness accounts of genocide\, ma
 ss violence\, and crimes against humanity form an evidentiary backbone for
  historical memory\, education\, and international justice. Generative AI 
 threatens this record on two fronts: fabricated testimony\, voice cloning\
 , and altered audiovisual material can contaminate the archive\, while the
  "Liar's Dividend" enables authentic testimony to be dismissed as syntheti
 c. Existing archival governance\, which relies largely on static preservat
 ion standards and institutional reputation\, was not designed for adversar
 ial manipulation at scale. We propose the Testimony Archive Integrity Asse
 ssment Framework (TAIAF)\, an operational trust infrastructure that transl
 ates ethical commitments into five institutional safeguards: transparency 
 through cryptographic provenance\, consent as ongoing\, open access with r
 eal-time monitoring\, early detection\, and documented accountability. \n
 Speakers:\nNathan HeathNathan Heath is an AI safety executive and decision
  scientist with over 14 years of experience across risk assessment\, geopo
 litics\, and AI safety. He currently serves as the Founder & CEO of Synton
 y\, an AI safety startup translating red teaming evaluations into good gov
 ernance. He is also the Co-Founder of The AIHL Project\, a research initia
 tive focused on assessing generative AI threats to protections under inter
 national humanitarian law. Nathan consults as a red teamer for OpenAI and 
 Anthropic\, and previously spent 6 years supporting the U.S. Department of
  Defense in areas such as emerging technology risk\, security cooperation\
 , and countering violent extremism. He received his M.A. in Law and Diplom
 acy from The Fletcher School.\nBroderick James McDonald\nBroderick James M
 cDonald is a behavioural scientist and senior AI researcher at Oxford\, Ki
 ng’s College London\, and The Alan Turing Institute. Outside this\, he i
 s a Senior Advisor to Tech Against Terrorism and a Senior Fellow at Mila a
 nd FIG. His work examines AI safety and catastrophic risk from online harm
 s and national-security threats\, including disinformation\, hybrid warfar
 e\, terrorism\, CBRN\, harmful manipulation\, deepfakes\, scams & fraud\, 
 child safety\, and election interference. He has advised frontier AI labs\
 , social media platforms\, AI safety institutes (AISI)\, intelligence agen
 cies\, law enforcement\, and prosecutors on emerging technology & global s
 ecurity threats. He previously held fellowships at the United Nations\, Un
 iversity of Cambridge\, and the Aspen Institute. His research & commentary
  have been featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The 
 Wall Street Journal\, among others. He frequently appears on television br
 oadcasters\, including BBC\, PBS\, GMA\, CBC\, ABC News\, France24\, and A
 l Jazeera News.\nSusan Nesbitt\nSusan Nesbitt is Managing Director at Cant
 ellus Group\, where she advises governments\, technology companies\, found
 ations\, and international organizations on the strategy\, governance\, an
 d responsible deployment of agentic AI systems\, helping leaders move from
  experimentation to enterprise adoption. She serves on the International A
 ssociation for Safe and Ethical AI (IASEAI) Policy Committee\, is a member
  of OpenAI’s External Red Teaming Network\, advises AI Safety Connect\, 
 and contributes to international initiatives with UNESCO on AI governance 
 and the ethical use of AI. Previously\, Susan led Global Social Impact Pro
 ducts & Partnerships at WhatsApp and held leadership roles at the World Ec
 onomic Forum\, building global partnerships at the intersection of technol
 ogy\, policy\, and societal impact.\nDr. Jennifer Victoria ScurrellDr. Jen
 nifer Victoria Scurrell is a scientist working at the intersection of huma
 n-AI interaction\, responsible AI\, and pluralistic AI alignment. She is a
  postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich and serves as co-foun
 der and CTO of an AI safety startup\, while also conducting research on pu
 blic preferences for AI alignment in Switzerland through a Public AI Fello
 wship. Her work spans AI governance and red teaming\, including collaborat
 ions with the Geneva Human Rights Hub\, UN’s OHCHR\, Microsoft\, and Ope
 nAI's Red Teaming Network. Jennifer also bridges science and the arts thro
 ugh performance and conceptual art within various collectives and collabor
 ations with the Schauspielhaus Zürich\, bringing AI topics into public co
 nversation. She received her PhD from ETH Zurich\, where her research exam
 ined how AI chatbots influence human opinions and behavior.\nThe Zentralbi
 bliothek Zurich\, the CERN Scientific Information Service\, and AILIS (Ass
 ociation of International Librarians and Information Specialists\, Geneva)
  jointly organize the Library Science Talks. A programme of talks for 2025
  can be found on the AILIS website. \n\nhttps://indico.cern.ch/event/1721
 046/\n\nZoom: https://cern.zoom.us/j/64470934471?pwd=IwSsczm7P9UausQcdGLHx
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