OverDrive published a formal policy in 2025 laying out how the company intends to use AI responsibly across its products. The policy covers privacy, environmental impact, intellectual property, and what uses of AI the company permits and prohibits.

The Responsible AI policy, last updated January 9, 2025, is organized around six pillars: privacy, environmental sustainability, human empowerment, human oversight, transparency, and intellectual property. Permitted uses listed include automating repetitive tasks, generating marketing content with mandatory human review, predictive analytics, and improving recommendation quality. Prohibited uses include making employment decisions without human review, discriminatory profiling, and circumventing copyright or digital rights management (DRM) protections. A companion page on the Libby app's own site, last updated February 2026, provides additional detail specific to how Inspire Me handles patron data and intellectual property protections.