AI RESEARCH ASSISTANTS

​David McKerracher and Matthew Stanley have been deep in conversation about using AI for research, translation, and scholarly work. Both have been experimenting with various tools and are eager to open that conversation up. Join us right after Innovation Collective's Coffee and Concepts for an informal, hands-on discussion about what AI can actually do for people who read, write, and think for a living. Bring your laptop if you want to show what you've been working with.

​Bios:

​David McKerracher (M.A.) is the founder of Theory Underground, an independent intellectual platform serving workers with earbuds getting into big ideas. He is the author of *Timenergy: Why You Have No Time or Energy* (foreword by Slavoj Žižek) and the creator of Canon: TCG, a liberal arts trading card game. He runs the McKerracher Family Farm in northern Idaho with his wife Ann.

​Matthew Stanley is an independent researcher and software startup manager who writes at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and psychoanalysis. He is the author of Ideology and Christian Universality, a theo-political reading of Shusaku Endo's Silence. His Substack, Moloch Theory, explores how capital and bureaucracy have transformed freedom into a tool of power and control. He lives in Sacramento, CA with his wife and two children.