Generative AI continues to integrate into our daily lives, and public libraries can play an important role in helping their communities understand these technologies. Everyone needs to understand GenAI's potential and limitations - regardless of whether someone uses a particular tool. Through their daily interactions with the public, librarians see how using these powerful tools can produce intentional and unintentional harm. This session will give an overview of how to work, live, and thrive in a world with GenAI. Panelists will share resources librarians can use to continue their own professional development and support their communities.

Presented by:

• Jevin West, Professor and the Associate Dean for Research, University of Washington Information School
• Carl Bergstrom, Professor, University of Washington Department of Biology
• Stacey Wedlake, Senior Research Scientist, University of Washington Information School

Access recording

• View webinar recording

Webinar attachments

• View slides (pdf)
  
• View chat (txt)

Related resources and links

• Which face is real? 
• MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES?  
• Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World
• Empowering Informed Communities
• OpenAI claims huge maths breakthrough on a famed ‘Millennium Problem’
• OpenAI's rogue agents keep escaping, with no formal process to investigate them | TechCrunch
• ALA: Guidance on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Libraries 
• AI models nearly erase female characters when they write kids stories about animals | UW News
• Three Mount Shasta climbers rescued after relying on AI to plan climb
• Epistemic diversity across language models mitigates knowledge collapse