LLMs: Redefining "Value" while Upholding "Values"

For the past two years, we’ve explored Generative AI’s evolving role—from demystifying LLMs to enabling AI-human collaboration. Now, in this third session of our series, we go deeper—not just into technology, but into the values that guide its use. When LLMs arrived with hype, we asked: Does this add value? Can we trust it? Is it aligned with human intent? These questions led us to train our own models, rethink processes, and redefine "value" while staying true to our values. We’ll share insights from building a Gen AI-based taxonomy solution, highlighting lessons from overcoming challenges and turning setbacks into breakthroughs. Beyond theory, we’ll showcase real-world use cases where AI augments human intelligence. Join us to push boundaries while keeping people at the center, balancing innovation with ethics, and navigating the Gen AI frontier with confidence.

Publication Date

May 2025

47th Annual Meeting (2025)

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Although every year in the scholarly publishing ecosystem is a balancing act of innovation, optimization, and value creation, 2025 is shaping up to be particularly challenging as the pace and scale of change is accelerating more than we’ve ever seen before. There is increasing pressure to provide value to and to meet the incredibly diverse needs of the global research community while maintaining financial health for our own organizations, living our values, and continuing to protect the scholarly record. With AI, open access, integrity, and mistrust frequently dominating the conversation, we are in the midst of an unprecedented shift in both our industry and society as a whole. As always, the SSP community continues to focus on bringing together academics, funders, librarians, publishers, service providers, technologists, researchers and countless others with a communal interest and stake in disseminating scholarly information. We look to the 47th Annual Meeting as an opportunity to continue this tradition and welcome all colleagues and community stakeholders.