Sabrina Cofer writes: “In the three and half years since ChatGPT’s launch, we’ve experienced a massive influx of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools that promise to solve problems that don’t exist and deliver ever-increasing efficiencies. A major topic of ALA’s 2026 Annual Conference was what AI can accomplish, and presenters had answers. Speakers shared that AI excels at tasks like writing code, generating tags, sorting through massive amounts of data, assisting with web development projects, and creating metadata. What is AI, as one panelist delicately put it, ‘garbage’ at? Reference services, reader advisory, and traditional catalog search.”