How Much Space Are We Willing to Sacrifice to Gen AI?

How much space are we willing to sacrifice to Gen AI? Aside from the (wonderful) Keynote speakers Drs. Z Nicolazzo and Amanda Tachine, none of the POD 2024 sessions were advertised to cover indigenous pedagogies or topics. Instead, what was not rare at POD 2024, were Gen AI sessions. I explore the following questions: How much space are we (as the POD community) willing to sacrifice to Gen AI? What is getting displaced from our conversations when so much revolves around Gen AI? In this commentary, I interrogate how our commitment to DEIJ values and practices may be misaligned with the space we give to Gen AI in our yearly conference through our conversations, our commitment to student learning, and building relationships. We can write a different future where we think about what we want to take and what we want to leave from the dominant culture as called to us by our Keynote speakers.