How did OpenAI hack Hugging Face? Watch this great video that walks you through how AI agents work and how scary this really is! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujkD...

AI Just Became Humanity’s Biggest Threat

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

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AI literacy is becoming an essential part of student success — and academic libraries have a critical role to play. 🔗 Read our full Statement on Libraries and Student AI Literacy: www.carl-abrc.ca/wp-content/u...

ICYMI: Prescribing Caution: A Critique of OpenEvidence to Answer Medication-Related Questions accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Prescribing Caution: A Critique of <fc>OpenEvidence</fc> to Answer Medication‐Related Questions

OpenEvidence is a newer medical large language model (LLM) that is growing in use among health professionals and students for clinical care and research. This paper provides an overview of existing l...

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We're BACK! Science at the Fifty-Third Degree gets Season 2 rolling with one of the most talked about issues in healthcare...the pharmacy's role in primary care. Listen wherever you get your #podcasts. #scicomm #pharmacy #healthcare #primarycare #health #science podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Courses Podcast · Updated Weekly · Great science doesn't happen in a vacuum — it happens at universities, in labs, and in the minds of researchers who've dedicated their lives to solving problems that...

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The call for proposals is now open for #CHLAABSC 2027 in Montreal! Deadline: Nov 7, 2026 #canmedlibs #medlibs chla-absc.ca/conf_present...

We're published! "Summarizing the evidence on health-system impacts of smart pump interoperability: A scoping review." It was a pleasure working with these incredible researchers! doi.org/10.1093/ajhp...

Summarizing the evidence on health-system impacts of smart pump interoperability: A scoping review

AbstractPurpose. Smart pump interoperability integrates infusion pumps with a healthcare facility’s electronic health record to reduce the risk of intraven

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Tomorrow's the big day! I'll be presenting a workshop, "Behind the Algorithm: Using AI in Your Research" at the Gairdner Alberta AI + Health Research Symposium. event.fourwaves.com/gapair

The 2026 Health Technology Assessment International (HTAi) Information Retrieval Group (IRG) newsletter is out now! Lots of good articles and resources to read! htai.org/wp-content/u... #medlibs #canmedlibs

@janicekung.bsky.social this is relevant to your concern from earlier today

Elf M. Sternberg@elfsternberg.bsky.social · 3w ago

In a study of doctors in Poland, using an AI for three months, then ceasing to use it, resulted in a 20% loss of skill and accuracy. Cognitive systems are metabolically expensive. When your brain knows there's a substitute, it resents not having access to it.

Rogue AI swarm used a University of Toronto link-shortening tool to communicate www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Rogue AI agents reportedly turned a University of Toronto tool into a message board | CBC News

A swarm of rogue OpenAI agents that hijacked a German website in the spring reportedly also used at least 10 other websites for unsanctioned communications earlier this year, including a link-shorteni...

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I have a colleague who is transitioning to ONLY teaching AI tools (e.g. Consensus) for literature searching rather than PubMed or other traditional bibliographic databases. I'm conflicted and still currently teach both. Please discuss! #medlibs #canmedlibs

"Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents" www.nature.com/articles/s41... - I'm curious what the copyright implications would be for this kind of use! Ingesting copyrighted content into AI is already a touchy subject.

Reimagining research papers as interactive and reliable AI agents - Nature

Paper2Agent converts research papers into interactive artificial intelligence agents by turning manuscripts, code and data into model context protocol-based tool-invoking systems that reproduce origin...

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ICYMI: Fantastic "Conducting Systematic Reviews" OER created by Queen's University Library. La traduction Française est en cours. guides.library.queensu.ca/knowledge-sy...

An MIT report warns AI is causing ‘cognitive surrender.’ Universities are in a bind. www.boston.com/news/educati...

An MIT report warns AI is causing ‘cognitive surrender.’ Universities are in a bind.

The MIT report crystallized some of the thinking in higher education about AI, but administrators have been embroiled in debates for years.

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AI researchers 'earnestly believe' it could kill all humans within the next decade, Anthropic employee says www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

AI researchers 'earnestly believe' it could kill all humans within the next decade, Anthropic employee says | CBC News

There is a more than 10 per cent chance that AI could kill all humans within the next decade, a researcher at Anthropic estimated in a post, hours after social media posts went viral from someone sayi...

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"Changing Patterns of Research Guide Use in the Era of Generative AI" - this paper highlights the steady decline of libguide traffic due to AI. journals.library.ualberta.ca/eblip/index....

Has anyone else seen OpenEvidence is now free for verified medical librarians? #medlibs

Interesting article! "AI Is Ruining Scholarship: When we outsource literature review to algorithms, we lose entire sectors of knowledge" www.chronicle.com/article/ai-i...

AI Is Ruining Scholarship

When we outsource literature review to algorithms, we lose entire sectors of knowledge.

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If you are an expert witness, do not use ChatGPT to write the report you are charging $475/hour for. All of your chat prompts are subpoenable and we are all going to laugh so hard. www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

‘Show How 3M Is 0% at Fault:’ Expert Witness Used ChatGPT to Write Report Defending Company in Deadly Explosion Lawsuit

ChatGPT prompts show how an expert witness report was created in a $61 million lawsuit over an explosion that killed three people.

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📣 Dear Alberta Separatists, You are being manipulated. 👇 Russian, U.S. interests are targeting Alberta’s separatist debate, Canadian research shows www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... "...Russian content farms have been pushing pro-separatist content..."

Russian, U.S. interests are targeting Alberta’s separatist debate, Canadian research shows

MAGA influencers are promoting the narrative that the province has no choice but to leave

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#NovaScotia author of Heated Rivalry — Rachel Reid has donated $300,000.00 to Nova Scotia Libraries This is amazing, Rachel is an incredible human being /1 thread www.ctvnews.ca/atlantic/nov...

‘Heated Rivalry’ author donates $300,000 to Nova Scotia libraries

Several Nova Scotia libraries that faced possible closures this summer are getting a major cash boost from one of the province’s most famous authors.

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Today's Friday isn't Five Minutes, but it is Friday! I used Claude.ai to create a tool for users to input their #systematicreview methods sections and receive a grade based on the PRISMA-Search Checklist. youtu.be/fEV8_mI9_P4?...

PRISMA-Search Auto-Reviewer | A Tool for Systematic Reviewers

YouTube video by Carrie Price

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Check out the updated "Generative AI" library guide from my amazing colleagues! New content: "Disabling AI Features" guides.library.ualberta.ca/generative-a...

Is AI Burning The Library Of Alexandria? www.youtube.com/watch?v=PP7T4G… (worth watching for correcting alarmist stories, also promotes libraries & Internet Archive) #AI #books #scanning #Anthropic #copyright

@giustini.bsky.social, @janicekung.bsky.social …

Medical Library Association@medlibassn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Check out this week's #JMLASpotlight! Automated indexing in MEDLINE and the Medical Text Indexer (MTI), 2000–2025: a scoping review➡️ https://ow.ly/eiy050ZuKtm #medlibs #healthsciences

a core of education is agency, and libraries are at the center of helping our users choose where and how they want to engage or not engage with AI. Especially in lieu of inconsistent governance I’m not surprised that many want to opt out techcrunch.com/2026/07/25/l...

Librarians are hosting viral 'Avoiding AI' workshops for people who are fed up with Big Tech | TechCrunch

At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.

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One of the findings from the US Library Survey 2025 (Ithaka S+R) shows ~33% of library directors plan to hire AI library roles. Here are some other numbers...

Free public seminar by a Medicine physician, "The Truth About GLP-1 Medications: Separating Facts, Myths, and Headlines." Wed, Sept 9 from 6-7 pm MT. www.ualberta.ca/en/departmen...