2025 Annual Meeting

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About the Meeting

Information science scholars and practitioners have anticipated the evolution (and expansion) of artificial intelligence (AI) for decades. AI has been called the “technology of a generation,” (UK Government, 2024) and as such, information science scholars will have a significant role in its development and implementation. As the world is now embracing AI in most aspects of life from education, commerce, leisure, physical and mental health care, politics, among others, information science scholars and practitioners should be asking difficult questions about how information science research can be used to benefit society and to guide others to thoughtfully implement the outcomes of our research within numerous contexts. As Marchionini in a recent article in the iSchools Newsletter (September 24, 2024) calls attention to, “we must ask ourselves what kinds of complicity we have in these developments. We conduct user studies that guide technical progress; invent and practice sometimes indiscriminate information gobbling through crawling, linking, and documenting services; form technical partnerships to personalize messages and curate highly targeted recommendations; and promote and advocate for technology advances to our students and colleagues, which on one hand leads to jobs while at the extreme devolves into tech titan envy.”