I've run intensive workshops on best practices for responsible and rigorous AI adoption for well over 500 researchers, colleagues, academics, and non-profit leaders over the past few months. As a former teacher, the Q&A after my workshops are some of the most fun and productive conversations I've had, so I figure: let's make this its own regular thing! With that in mind, I'm excited to launch a nice little community service, free and open to the public, for as long as it continues to feel useful to folks: Every other Thursday from 2-3pm ET, I'm hosting free AI Office Hours: an open Google Meet session for anyone navigating AI in research, education, teaching, policy, or nonprofit work. Bring your questions, your half-working pipelines, your skepticism, your worries, and your ethical quandaries. No question too basic, too weird, or too heady/philosophical. I can't promise satisfying answers to *everything*, but I can promise helpful thinking and opportunities to dig in deeper to learn more together. Drop-in, drop-out, attend one, attend all, talk a lot, or just listen in off-camera. Taking all kinds, because there's always more to learn from others on this crazy and wild frontier right now! A few things I want to emphasize:
It's genuinely free, and always will be, with no catches or pitches. I am intentionally dedicating 40% of my time to explicit pro bono work via Open Augments, and I love teaching. I want it accessible to anyone who wants to think more critically and carefully about AI given all the crazy hype and misinformation floating about.
This is for kind of everyone! Most of my experience is supporting researchers, academics, and non-profits, but if you're interested and in another field or role, no harm in stopping by and joining the conversation.
Every level of experience is welcome. The "embarrassing" beginner questions are always worth discussing in more detail, and I can guarantee you're not alone.
You can submit questions/topics ahead of time when you register, so I can come prepared with real answers (and real demos, where useful). But totally optional -- registration takes two minutes just to grab contact info (which will always be kept private and protected).
Whether you've been to one of my workshops or webinars and left with a question you never got to ask, or you're deep in the weeds on agentic orchestration and want to learn some pro-tips, or you've just been seeing my posts and wondering what the heck all this AI stuff is about: this is for you! First session is this Thursday (July 30th) from 2-3pm ET and continues biweekly from there;
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