Collabware Commits $75,000 to Global Artificial Intelligence Research

Collabware, a leading provider of archival, discovery, and records management software, today announced its pledge of $75,000 in cash and resources to contribute to an international research project aimed at the further understanding and responsible development of artificial intelligence (AI) for trustworthy records and archiving practices. "InterPARES is a 20-year project developing theoretical and methodological frameworks for sustainable and responsible information management and we are now launching phase 5, which focuses on the application of Artificial Intelligence," says Luciana Duranti, Director of I Trust AI. "Being able to create a feedback loop between researchers and users and get support from an organization, like Collabware, that is implementing AI in their software and for their customers, allows us to get real world access to understand its impacts and challenges." The Collabware financial commitment will be distributed over five years and include the time of Collabware staff members with expertise in records analysis and data science as consultants and industry experts, as well as, their expenses for participation in research meetings. The AI Project was awarded a $2.5 Million partnership grant this month by the Government of Canada's Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and over $3 Million matching funds in cash and in kind by its more than 60 partner organizations in 26 countries and 5 continents. "Collabware has been harnessing the immense computing power and automation of machine learning and artificial intelligence in our software development for years," says Graham Sibley, CEO of Collabware.