The False Choice We Keep Making About AI

Why "For or Against" is Failing Librarians and Students

Created with ChatGPT Editor’s Note Over the past few weeks, I have seen Facebook posts and comments circulating that call out other colleagues and me by implication, for engaging with AI. Rather than responding in fragments or comment threads, I want to step back and address the larger issue those posts reveal. This piece is not a rebuttal or a defense of any single tool. It is an attempt to have the conversation our profession keeps circling without fully entering. The conversation around artificial intelligence in education and libraries has collapsed into a false choice. You are either…

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