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The episode features a live discussion on critical AI research with audience participation and expert guests.

Our second live show! Only Justin could make it to ALA but we’ve got THREE great guests plus very good audience questions. We talk about AI through discourse analysis, refusal, STS, and more. Guests’ writings Transcending Binaries of Agency through Librarians’ Discursive Constructions of AI https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/961342 Discourses of fear around AI and their implications for library and information science: https://publicera.kb.se/ir/article/view/47548 I Bought Slop: A Conversation on the Accidental Purchase of AI-Generated Material https://acrlog.org/2026/02/09/i-bought-slop-a-conversation-on-the-accidental-purchase-of-ai-generated-material/ ChatGPT Can’t Envision Anything: It’s Actually BS-ing - ACRLog https://acrlog.org/2023/07/21/chatgpt-cant-envision-anything-its-actually-bs-ing/ A ChatGPT generated post (and a first year librarian’s thoughts) - ACRLog https://acrlog.org/2023/01/31/a-chatgpt-generated-post-and-a-first-year-librarians-thoughts/ “Against AI:Critical Refusal in the Library,” from Library Trends: https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/968497 “Relationality Over Neutrality: On Technology,” from Information Technology and Libraries…

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