There is a question I keep coming back to as I prepare for Thursday.

We have spent decades building universities around one core idea: that knowledge is earned through effort, reflection, time, and intellectual struggle. That the process of thinking deeply is just as important as the output it produces.

AI does not work that way. It compresses that process. It removes the struggle. And it delivers something that looks very much like the output, without any of the journey that used to produce it.

So what do we do with that?
Not as a policy question. Not as a technology debate. But as people who have dedicated our careers to knowledge, learning, and the development of human minds.

That is what I will be exploring on Thursday, May 21 at the 8th FASS Lecture Series, LAUTECH Ogbomoso. The lecture is titled Artificial Intelligence, Intellectual Authenticity, and Deep Scholarship: Rethinking Library and Information Science in The Digital Age.

I do not have all the answers. But I think asking the right questions out loud, in a room full of people who care about scholarship, is exactly where this conversation needs to happen.

12 noon. The Hall, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso.

Come ready to think.

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