

In Dialogue with AI: Demystifying AI (Night 1)
Six evenings that use the defining technology of our moment to re-examine our relationship to one another. Not AI as a tool to master or a threat to repel, but a sustained question: who are we in dialogue with when we use AI, and what is it teaching us about ourselves?
Each evening stands on its own, and the six together make an argument. There is nothing to catch up on and no background required, beyond having noticed that something has changed.
This is not a technical course. It is an invitation to look at AI plainly, together, and to notice what it is teaching us about ourselves. Bring whatever you already think. It holds up better in a room full of people than it does alone.
Read more: https://www.indialoguewithai.org/
Demystifying AI
Seeing plainly what AI is, and learning to look at it without projection.
About Roberto Santiago
Roberto A. Santiago is an applied AI researcher who has spent thirty-five years inside this field, in a lineage that runs directly back to Paul Werbos, the inventor of backpropagation through time. He builds these systems, and he has watched the culture around them form.
Agenda
6:00 - 6:45: Lecture
6:45 - 7:00: Discussion
7:00 - 7:30: Post-event networking