At the Fantastic Futures Conference 2025, the Time Machine Organisation, as member of the AI4LAM community, is looking forward to supporting the collaboration on “Culture for AI: Formulating an Alignment”: a participatory initiative exploring how the digital heritage community can shape responsible AI.
Cultural heritage institutions have long been drivers of digital innovation. They don’t just use AI to enhance collections and storytelling, they bring expertise, diverse datasets, and values that can guide AI itself. As TMO President Frédéric Kaplan puts it:
“Building a geohistorical atlas and an immersive mirror world where history unfolds across time and space, we are proud to engage with the AI4LAM community to exchange insights on advanced AI technologies.”
Through the Alignment Assembly on ‘Culture for AI’, launched in May 2025, the community engages with provocative statements about AI, contributes their views, and helps define what responsible AI should look like in practice. Topics include openness of data, ethical partnerships, and the role of open-source AI in cultural heritage. The process highlights consensus, surfaces tensions, and creates a living resource to guide the sector. By connecting AI with culture, the Assembly demonstrates how the common European data space for heritage can shape tools and practices that reflect public values, support innovation, and strengthen Europe’s cultural sovereignty.
“At the upcoming Fantastic Futures conference, we are looking forward to highlighting how the collaboration between Europeana, leading the development of the common European data space for cultural heritage, and the Time Machine Organisation is creating new ways to transform, access and experience cultural heritage through spatiotemporal artificial intelligence. Our goal is not only to enhance cultural engagement, but also to strengthen Europe’s global competitiveness and support long-term cultural sovereignty.” – Frédéric Kaplan (President TMO).