The Spring 2026 issue of the Oral History Review features a Special Section on Oral History and AI. In it, Douglas A. Boyd, director of the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Libraries and designer of the Oral History Metadata Synchronizer (OHMS) system, was a contributor to the Roundtable, “Main Essay: Oral History Is Not Just Data: Amplifying Humanistic Practices in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” In his “Roundtable Response: Using AI to Facilitate More Ethical Access to Archived Oral History?,” Boyd reflects on his history creating OHMS, and on oral history collection access as an attribute but one fraught with ethical issues. Here, in his Author Interview with OHR Editor Holly Werner-Thomas, Boyd further elaborates on the benefits and drawbacks of using AI and talks about why he designed his new SpeakEZ system as a closed system so that no interview contents are used on the back end for machine learning purposes.