AI bots attacking library systems could push users away from libraries and toward AI vendors themselves - compounding the problem of people stopping at AI overviews. Kate Dohe's Scholarly Kitchen post: libraries need urgent investment to survive.

I find the concept of AI tools being able to decrease the "price" for research interesting. If we argue further, the quality might be predicted to be lower (or more variable). The oft-ignored aspect of AI is that it is leveler and helps ESL researchers and ECRs more.