Prompt: The ACRL defines Research as Inquiry as a process that focuses on 'finding responses to unexpected puzzles' rather than seeking a single, uncontested answer. However, generative AI tools are designed to provide the opposite: a singular, polished 'answer.'
How are we helping students maintain intellectual humility and persistence (key dispositions of this frame) when their primary tools are designed to eliminate the 'messy middle' of research? Are we losing the 'serendipity of the search' that leads to truly transformative inquiry?"
Context: This discussion explores the tension between the dispositions of a researcher (flexibility, open-mindedness) and the efficiency of modern AI-driven discovery tools.
