There's also the AI4LAM group.
https://sites.google.com/view/ai4lam

Amy Swackhamer (she/her)
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University of Maryland Libraries
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 8:55 AM Esmé Cowles <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> There's a little bit of discussion in the Code4Lib slack #generative-ai
> channel (I see you're in that channel, Eric, but Stuart isn't and maybe
> there are other folks on the list who don't know about that channel). My
> library's internal Slack workspace also has an active AI channel — do you
> have library or campus Slack/Teams/whatever forums with that kind of
> discussion?
>
> Also, from a different angle, there is quite a bit of activity in the
> Code4Lib #bots channel. If the AI harvesting bots are taking your sites
> down, there is lots of advice on how to mitigate that.
>
> -Esmé
> --
> Esmé Cowles <[log in to unmask]>
> Asst. Director, Library Software Engineering
> Princeton University Library
>
> > On Jul 6, 2025, at 9:06 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> >> Does anyone know of any forum where there is series discussion of
> >> Generative AI from a LIS point of view? I'm not interested in "What do
> >> <group X> think of Generative AI" or "How are our students using
> Generative
> >> AI" I want things directly tied to core LIS such as:
> >>
> >> (a) "Every reader their book: do AI scrapers count as readers?"
> >> (b) "Save The Time Of The Reader: how do we best serve AI scrapers?"
> >
> >
> >  I'm very interested in the same things. --Eric Morgan <[log in to unmask]>
>