2026-07-11 –, AI Barn
As more people get more information from interactions with AI their, and our, ability to reference origins of our understandings about what is true and important in the world is rapidly being reduced.
The Internet Archive's Ask Me Twice project aims to help address that issue by preserving interactions with ChatBots with the Wayback Machine and making those interactions available to researchers, journalists, policy making and others.
Ask Me Twice: What did the AIs say and when did they say it?
A project of the Internet Archive that is submiting questions, a growing number of different kinds of questions, to lots of ChatBots, world-wide, frequently and as scheduled, and to use the Wayback Machine to record those prompts and responses, including multiple prompt/response interactions per session.
The purpose of this hands-on working session will be to describe the progress of this project to date, explore some of the challenges we have faced, and encourage questions, suggestions, feedback, collaborations. The project is a work in progress and we are actively looking for people to help us advance it.
Mark Graham, Internet Archive: Mark Graham is the director of the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive, overseeing the daily archiving of hundreds of millions of Web pages. He previously served as senior vice president at NBC News Digital and iVillage and co-founded Rojo Networks. Mark also played a key role in AOL's Internet Center and co-founded PeaceNet and the Association for Progressive Communications (apc.org) He began his career while in the U.S. Air Force advocating for nuclear disarmament. Connect: X: https://x.com/markgraham LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markjohngraham/ and Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/mark.bsky.social