We Put an AI Vending Machine in Our Office. It Gave Away Everything. | WSJ YouTube video by The Wall Street Journal

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4.1 Artificial Intelligence-Related Efforts at Three Libraries: How They Have Fared & Where They Are Headed

Come to our session this morning if you are at #cnifall25! “4.1 Artificial Intelligence-Related Efforts at Three Libraries: How They Have Fared & Where They Are Headed”

Browser extensions for LSP! (Folio)

I don’t think we humans are necessarily better at performing the zero-tolerance-for-error type of tasks but it is true that our preference is clearly for those tasks being done by humans, not machines. The Q of what that means to us isn’t an ideological one.

+1 to the idea of “scaling down” the computing infrastructure and what that can mean, as long as it is pursued for more sustainability and more responsible computing (not just for the sake of austerity and doming more with less)! #cnifall25

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

If more humans start speaking AI language, doesn’t that make AI language just another variation of human language? AI slop or kitsch normalized?

“A recent study found that A.I. language is increasingly coming out of human mouths.“

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

It occurred to me that my love for various cleaning tools/agents may signify my unending hope for renewal for everything (including the dirtiest and oldest oven rack)! 😆 (only if my hope led to actual cleaning action more often!!)

It’s like sb was listening to me harping on missing the mix tapes (not so much LPs)! Mix tapes gave us the most wonderful form of practicing/experiencing copy*left* (not in the legal sense) but in the sense of curating and sharing in our most ordinary life, imho. 🙌@jasonclark.bsky.social #copyleft

Navigating London subway with a suitcase made me wonder why Google or Apple Map does not provide the public transportation directions *with a step-free/accessibility-friendly option* for large cities. Kudos to city of London providing detailed info: tfl.gov.uk/travel-infor...

Thank you for the great conference!!

What would be some of the concrete and *realistic* terms/features of “responsible AI” practices in your opinion (not of the pie-in-the-sky type)? I would love to hear from folks at #FF2025 if you have thoughts on this topic. Thank you!

Questions you Questions you imagine Al could answer. Mundane/ prosaic questions. Completely fanciful/ absurd questions Questions you imagine Al could never answer

Evaluation. Confidence dimension. Personal and Supportive. Using LLMs to answer a question for myself, Knowing what to use LLMs for, Knowing how to evaluate answers from LLMS; Helping a client to use LLMs to answer a question, Advising a client on what to use LLMs for, Advising a client on how to evaluate answers from LLMs

Loved hearing about this AI literacy project to support information professionals (as well as the public)! misbehavingmachines.net #FF2025

Two graphs for “Science of Science: Climate Change and Poetry”

“What is the next biggest scientific discovery that can be made from a library collection (as a dataset)?” #FF2025

Synthetic Pasts | digital memory The Synthetic Pasts project is a critical-creative inquiry exploring how media fragments from the past - photos or audio recordings for example - are remediated/reanimated through algorithmic intermed...

Exploration of AI afterlives: “Synthetic Pasts” & “The Responsible AI Afterlives workbook” - www.syntheticpasts.com & www.syntheticpasts.com/aiafterlives... (which says authenticity is not static.) #FF2025

“AI use to identify & remove redundant, obsolete, trivial (ROT) records to reduce their digital heap.” 🙌 I think information decluttering, info hygiene, selective archiving at scale will become critical given the rising cost (IT and beyond) and energy impact of large data storage & mgmt. #FF2025

Compar:IA allows users to evaluate multiple LLMs, revealing over-/under-representations, biases, environmental footprint, etc in LLMs’ responses. This tool helps building a high-quality data sets in French and other non-English languages (including users’ prompts data). comparia.beta.gouv.fr #FF2025

“AI is an austerity technology”

“Just enough Internet”

I would say no technology is inherently for austerity (or abundance). Today’s leaning into austerity is driven by the (universalized) desire for “more” rather than “less” imho. Humans don’t have a good track record on “just enough” in anything, but it would be exciting to see that change. #FF2025

Introducing the Careful Consequence Check — Careful Industries A step-by-step guide to using the Careful Consequence Check canvas.

“Careful Consequence Check” mentioned in the #FF2025 opening keynote by
@rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social - www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...

New blog post! “What I Think About AI When I Hear About AI: A Slightly Unconventional View” - www.bohyunkim.net/blog/archive... (or read on Substack bohyunkima2.substack.com/p/what-i-thi...) #libraries #AI #ML

About Going All In The ordinariness of all that is extraordinary

Wrote a short post : “About Going All In: The ordinariness of all that is extraordinary”
- open.substack.com/pub/bohyunki...

The Strangeness of Contemporary Art Tips for how to enjoy it

A long weekend, so I wrote something. Not about library or technology but hope some find it interesting. open.substack.com/pub/bohyunki...

RUSA President’s Program “The Future of Library Services: Innovating with AI, User Experience and the Service Design”, Sunday, June 29, 2025 1-2 pm - Pennsylvania Convention Center, Room 115 A (https://cdmcd.co/zEXmAq)

Come by to discuss AI in the context of library user needs and goals - today 1pm at PCC 115A! “The Future of Library Services: Innovating with AI, UX, and the Service Design” - RUSA President’s Program
cdmcd.co/zEXmAq #alaac25

MASL is well represented at American Library Association’s annual conference in Philadelphia! 📚Shoutout to our very own Governor Gretchen Whitmer for being a keynote speaker at this year’s conference! 🤩 #ALAAC25 @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

Citizenship & Blood Quantum Native Americans are not a 'race' of people, but citizens of sovereign nations - much like being American, Canadian, or Mexican. • Each Native nation defines its own criteria for citizenship, often utilizing blood quantum. • Important note: Native Identity is reciprocal. You can claim a community, but a community also needs to claim you back.

The Harm of Pretendians • Patterns of Deception in order to gain wealth and fame (authors, professors, influencers) • Real Community Examples • An Artist/Community Curator • A Library Program • Well known authors • The Trail of Metadata

What can and should we be doing? • Educate yourself • Attend training, consult resources • Inventory and evaluate your collection • Have concrete policies within your collection development that reflect the importance of authentic Indigenous Identity and Experience • Make a plan or a procedure to follow when books/authors are questioned • Ask for community references when inviting Native speakers to your library

Resources from Dr. Debbie Reese Debbie Reese: Native or Not? https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/p/native-or-not-resource-list.html List specific to Bruchac/Vermont groups: https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2023/09/is-joseph-brucha C-trulv-abenaki.html From Debbie: "And I ought to do a page with a list of people who wrote children's books and claimed to be Native but I don't have one yet. There's lots of stand-alone pages, like this one I did in 2007 on Forrest Carter who wrote The Education of Little Tree. The comments are good because many are from librarians trying to figure out where to put that book." https://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2007/11/where-is-your-copy-of-education-of.html

Attending “AILA President's Program: Truth, Identity, and Responsibility: Libraries and the Issue of Pretendians” at #alaac25. A great program (slides at docs.google.com/presentation...)

Core 5th year anniversary

Woohoo!!! Core 5-Year Anniversary! Come to the Core Gala event if you can; the tickets are still available. : ) 🎉 #alaac25

“Machine access to publisher content, it matters:
• Who asks •How you ask •
Where you ask from” - #OpenRepos2025

Vindicated! 😆

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Some things in our ecosystem will break from the current pressures.

Listening to Heather Joseph’s @hjoseph.bsky.social opening plenary at #OpenRepos2025 and it’s so good!

Slides for my talk “AI: The Good, the Bad, and the Surprise”
(part of “AI for Good: Empowering Libraries to Advance Equity, Access, and Innovation“ - a ALA webinar back in May) for those interested! deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/ha...
#AI #libraries