This seems a) unwise, b) half-baked, and c) completely dismissive of library science as a worthwhile course of study and research. Embarrassing and disturbing treatment of a 100-year old program and its excellent faculty (toward which I am admittedly biased).
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Breaking: UNC schools of data science and information science to merge, forming unnamed ‘School of AI’
SDSS Dean Stanley Ahalt will be made dean of the new school while SILS Dean Jeffrey Bardzell will stand as the University’s Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer and Vice Provost for AI.