{"id":223022,"date":"2026-05-31T05:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/beyond-books-can-we-opt-out-of-the-artificial-intelligence-era\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T05:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T09:55:59","slug":"beyond-books-can-we-opt-out-of-the-artificial-intelligence-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/31\/beyond-books-can-we-opt-out-of-the-artificial-intelligence-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Books: Can we opt out of the artificial intelligence era?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/lifestyle\/beyond-books-opt-artificial-intelligence-090840219.html\">Beyond Books: Can we opt out of the artificial intelligence era?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/lifestyle\/beyond-books-opt-artificial-intelligence-090840219.html\">https:\/\/www.aol.com\/lifestyle\/beyond-books-opt-artificial-intelligence-090840219.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-31 05:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.aol.com\">www.aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The author reflects on contemplating retirement as technological advancements, like the rise of AI and robots, seem to overshadow their ability to keep up.<\/li>\n<li>Concerns are raised about the potential loss of institutional knowledge due to technological progress, feeling that each change pushes out previous generations who can&#8217;t keep up technologically.<\/li>\n<li>The author wonders if Artificial Intelligence represents a significant inflection point and questions whether humans will become mere overseers rather than active players in society.<\/li>\n<li>AI\u2019s pervasiveness in everyday life raises questions about control over personal data and suggests a growing loss of personal agency.<\/li>\n<li>The author believes AI doesn\u2019t make librarianship irrelevant, emphasizing that technology replaces some tasks but doesn&#8217;t eliminate the need for human creativity and effort.<\/li>\n<li>The article concludes by pointing out that while AI can simulate organizational tasks, it hasn\u2019t yet replaced the need for the physical presence of books and documents in libraries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond Books: Can we opt out of the artificial intelligence era? https:\/\/www.aol.com\/lifestyle\/beyond-books-opt-artificial-intelligence-090840219.html Publish Date: 2026-05-31&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":223023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/cv\/apiv2\/aolfp\/images\/og-image.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-223022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":223024,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223022\/revisions\/223024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}