The past two days, I have been at CUNY’s 23rd annual IT Conference. It’s a conference I enjoy, even though it’s geared toward IT professionals, which I am decidedly not. Nonetheless, the smattering of librarian presentations is usually enough to keep me occupied and contented throughout the conference.

I did catch some of the presentations by the IT folk. They were relentlessly AI focused. I would be more eye-rolling about this, but some of the presenters were reasonably pragmatic about the future of AI in higher ed. Perhaps a dose of pragmatism and realism is a useful antidote to the dour doomerism I’ve been carrying around about this topic. So right now, as I sip my Friday night tea, I’m doing my best to attempt look at AI from their point of view. We’ll see if this brings any insights.

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