Leo S. Lo
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Leo S. Lo co-chairs UVA's AI Policy, Usage, and Guidance (PUG) committee with Chief Information Officer Kelly Doney and co-founded the AI Literacy and Action (AILA) Lab with Christa Acampora, Dean of Arts and Sciences.
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The AILA lab launched in April 2026 and works with schools and units across Grounds, starting with faculty course pilots and building out from what those pilots show. Lo teaches Thinking in the Age of AI, a seminar on what students keep and what they give up when they hand their thinking to a machine.
Lo studies how AI changes knowledge, judgment, and action, and how institutions can adapt under uncertainty. CLEAR, his prompting framework, appears in 200 or more institutional guides worldwide. The UVA Archival AI Protocol he published treats AI training on archival collections as a disposition decision that cannot be undone, and the Statement of Shared Practice he launched unites more than 20 institutions around common terms for AI access to unique cultural collections.
He served as president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) in 2024–25, where he established the task force that developed the AI Competencies for Library Workers. He earned his doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania and a postgraduate diploma in Artificial Intelligence for Business from the University of Oxford Saïd Business School. His forthcoming book, Anchored Adaptation: AI Literacy and Workforce Reskilling in Academic Libraries, arrives from ACRL in fall 2027.