Libraries, AI, and the Future of Learning and Work

June 10, 2025 | 2:00 p.m. ET

In the next few years, generative AI will enable an unprecedented scope, scale, and speed of human learning and innovation. The ways that this will reorganize our relationship to work, information, and one another are, in many ways, an open question. Where do libraries fit in the midst of this disruption, uncertainty, and opportunity? Libraries and librarians belong at the center of this moment.

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What you will learn

In this session, you will learn about the way generative AI is transforming learning and work in a way we have never seen before. The experience, wisdom, expertise and ethics of librarians are essential to building a new future of learning with generative AI. This session will focus on how librarians and libraries can assert themselves in the early days of AI.

Speaker

Michael Hanegan

Michael Hanegan is the Founder of Intersections, a learning and human formation company. He is an adjunct professor of AI and the future of learning and works at Rose State College and the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the co-author of a book on AI and libraries being published this summer by the American Library Association. He works with K-12 districts, universities, workforce development, and the library ecosystem. He lives in Edmond, Oklahoma with his family.