Abstract：ChatGPTa viral data-driven disruption in the information environment Purpose This study aims to introduce librarians to ChatGPT and challenge them to think about how it fits into their work and what learning they will need to do in order to stay relevant in the realm of artificial intelligenceDesignmethodologyapproach Popular and scientific media sources were monitored over the course of two months to gather current discussions about the uses of and opinions about ChatGPTThis was analyzed in light of historical developments in education and librariesAdditional sources of information on the topic were described and discussed so that the issue is made relevant to librarians and librariesFindings The potential risks and benefits of ChatGPT are highly relevant for librarians but also currently not fully understoodWe are in a very early stage of understanding and using this technology but it does appear to have the possibility of becoming disruptive to libraries as well as many other aspects of lifeOriginalityvalue ChatGPT-3 has only been publicly available since the end of November 2022We are just now starting to take a deeper dive into what this technology means for librariesThis paper is one of the early ones that provide librarians with some direction in terms of where to focus their interest and attention in learning about itThis article mainly explores Chaatgptwhich is based on the Transformer architectureIt mainly uses a chatbot with natural language processingNLPtechnologyNLP is committed to enabling computers to understandprocess and generate human language