Ambrose Dudley, The Burning of the Library of Alexandria This is the first in a series of essays about the choices that knowledge institutions face as AI reshapes how their collections and resources are used. The people on various sides of these debates are, for the most part, deeply committed to access to knowledge — the disagreement is about means. Some believe that the best way to protect access to knowledge is to impose new conditions on how AI can use it and for what purposes. I think that approach is more likely to undermine access than to save it.…