The Internet Archive at 30: Can the web’s memory bank withstand the AI era?

# AI Foresights Summary The Internet Archive, a 30-year-old nonprofit that preserves old websites and digital history for anyone to browse, is facing a new threat from AI companies that want to use its massive collection of data to train their systems. Website publishers are increasingly blocking the Archive from saving their pages, and the organization now has to decide whether to let AI companies use decades of preserved web content or protect that historical record for regular people instead.