Artificial intelligence is reshaping higher education, and academic libraries are uniquely positioned to guide faculty, staff, and students through its opportunities and challenges. Librarians occupy a rare role in this landscape: we are educators and information professionals who can approach AI without a financial stake in whether it succeeds or fails. This independence allows us to foster open, critical conversations about AI’s benefits and limitations, including its role in disinformation, its labor implications, and the environmental costs of training and operating large-scale systems.

This session will introduce the fundamentals of AI and share strategies for using it as a springboard to move beyond the traditional “one shot” instruction model. Drawing from real-world experience, Atticus Garrison will show how AI became an entry point for new collaborations with instructors and departments across campus.

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