Teaching Information Literacy: Reflecting on Research in the Age of AI

College students enter our classrooms today comfortable with a multitude of AI tools and services that promise to aid their learning, writing, and research. Meanwhile, many faculty and librarians view such generative AI and other aids with trepidation, concerned about the ways in which they will change political science education and teaching. As with all new technologies, there are significant challenges that we will confront as we consider their affordances. Educators must rethink how to foster students’ critical thinking, information literacy, communication, and research skills—typically long-term objectives—in light of rapidly developing apps and programs that aim to reduce effort and provide quick results.