Andrea Baer writes: “In this article, I explore the dissonance between instruction librarians’ pedagogical goals and professional values and the capacities, limitations, and costs of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools. I pay particular attention to messages we hear about the appropriate ways to think and feel about generative AI. These ‘feeling rules’ often stand in the way of honest and constructive dialogue and collective decision making. Work from within and outside librarianship offers another view: that we can slow down, look honestly at generative AI capacities and harms, and collectively explore the kinds of futures we want.”