Conversations with a retired information scientist about the appropriate use of Artificial Intelligence

'I feel an urgent need to understand how AI will affect my life' – Chris Armstrong The UK e-information Group management committee was saddened that our chair David Ball passed away recently, only weeks after the loss of Douglas Veal, a great information scientist who co-chaired with David our prestigious international Tony Kent Strix information retrieval award panel. It dredged up thoughts of the movers and shakers past and present who have supported us over the years, since our inception as a special interest group of the Institute of Information Scientists in 1978 and now as a core part of the CILIP community.