Prince Hassan Warns of Lack of Arab Heritage in Digital Databases
His Royal Highness Prince Hassan bin Talal visited the National Library Department in Jordan, where he emphasized the importance of protecting cultural heritage and the national memory by preserving documents, books, and manuscripts. He highlighted the need to develop digitization systems and data platforms to ensure the continuity of this heritage for future generations. He also warned about the absence of Arab heritage from digital databases, which exposes identity and history to erasure through global platforms and algorithms that are not co-designed by the people of the region. He pointed to the danger of "memoricide," aimed at erasing history and identity. He affirmed that weak organization of Arab data will lead to reliance on AI systems based on unreliable sources, threatening the encoding of national identity and quick access to information. He called for an integrated system to safeguard and organize digital data for future generations.
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