Librarians in Philadelphia, Maine, and beyond are fielding waitlists to teach adults how to shut off unwanted AI features. In South Philadelphia, a librarian named Charlie Bailey led a session called “Avoiding AI” that hit a waitlist before the event filled. Bailey’s Instagram post promoting the workshop pulled more than 2,000 likes and 220 shares, and he scheduled a second session. In Bangor, Maine, librarian Hannah Cyrus capped registration at 30, added a waitlist, then streamed via Zoom, drawing roughly 70 participants per session; her standard Intro to Computers class gets maybe a dozen takers. Cyrus wrote a journal article about the format; dozens of librarians worldwide reached out for her materials. Bailey’s sessions cover disabling Apple Intelligence and Gemini on smartphones, turning off auto-generated text in email, hiding AI-generated summaries in search results, and restricting personal data from being used to train AI models. An attendee surfaced a folk hack—appending “&udm=14” to a Google search URL strips out AI results. Bailey told AI Weekly, “As an information professional, it feels good to see people skeptical of AI… helping people reclaim their autonomy over whether they want to use AI tools.” Cyrus uses AI-powered optical character recognition to digitize old library documents, but attendees resent AI “shoved down my throat at work.” Cyrus suggested to TechCrunch that forced AI adoption “might be the straw that’s breaking the camel’