Before it was a book, You Teach the Machines was an AI literacy workshop. I've helped over 850 people from California to Maine understand AI, process their fear, and move past the hype. The workshop helps people from 12 to 80+. I make it as fun as the topic can be! A short-form example in Burlington, VT June 2025 is here. Video of a full workshop in Brooklyn, NY October of 2025 here. I wound down this work in 2026. If your community has a burning desire to learn how you teach the machines, feel free to connect. I don't charge libraries, schools, or community groups. Ideally you could partner with a local bookstore to support sales of the book through their business. Events: Somesville Library, Somesville, ME August 26th Hawn Memorial Library, Clayton, NY August 22, 2026 Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, ME January 2026 College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel, Philadelphia, PA November 2025Springboard Enterprises, New York, NY October 2025Gowanus Studio Tour, Poursteady, Brooklyn, NY October 2025Bala Cynwyd Library, Bala Cynwyd, PA September 2025Belvedere Tiburon Library, Tiburon, CA August 2025Thousand Island Park Library, Clayton, NY August 2025Thousand Island Park Chatauqua, Clayton, NY, August 2025Causeway Club, Southwest Harbor, ME July 2025 Grindstone Island Winery, Clayton, NY July 2025PechaKucha 40, Burlington, VT June 2025 (Book published June 27) Colby College, Waterville, ME March 2025 NIH CTSA Consortium, Bethesda, MD November 2024American College of Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, IL September 2024Thousand Island Park Chatauqua, Clayton, NY, July 2024 Here's a transcript of part of the full workshop where we admit that AI can be put to productive use, despite major flaws in the current landscape. "If you choose to use it productively. Yeah, so that's a really good, that's a really good point. There's there's a point of view with technology: am I using it deliberately, or am I just like depending on it mindlessly? There are a lot of amazing things that have come out of those same companies, including social media, right? Like some of you may be here because of social media. That's a good thing, right? You may have heard about it. But at the same time AI has been used, especially in the last five years, six years, to make our interaction with digital systems more and more compelling and harder and harder to step back from and avoid. So my biggest, my biggest argument with the AI industry as it is now, is for the casual consumer like, "hey, we're just using Chat GPT or Gemini or Claude or one of these things," or also "hey, I am consuming social media," is it's really really built around giving us those hits that will keep us coming back. So I I can go off on tech dependence all day long. I'm gonna stop there, but it's something to be aware of when you're interacting with AI systems, that those systems, they're they're trying to charm you. They're type casting and all these things because they really want to get you using them and keep using them. They want you to like pay for the premium subscription, right? That doesn't mean they're all bad and that you can't be productive in line, right? Um, we've talked about a lot about all the bad stuff. We're gonna really really try hard together to focus on the good stuff. Mary Jane just shook her head. Ha ha. Um, and I'm gonna, I'm gonna blow through what I have to say and then and then we can talk some more together, uh, and then we'll switch over to uh what I'm personally more interested in than being here to talk about AI again. Um, 'cause actually I didn't really want to write a book about AI, but haha. Um, and we'll do, we'll do some coffee stuff. So uh, a couple of my anecdotes, and then I'm gonna ask y'all for some um, why, why am I not like ready to throw the baby out with the bathwater and cut the cable and walk away from all this stuff? My uh mother in law, Mary Jane's grandmother, was staying with us this summer. She woke up, almost fell down from severe pain in the back of her knee. She's 82. She doesn't slow down, but this stopped her. She was up early when this happened, and um sat at the kitchen table and was googling over and over, what's going on, what's going on, what's going on, and was getting more and more scared. It was, she was not getting helpful information. It was scattered. Uh, I I got up, came downstairs, and and um could tell something was wrong and asked her, hey, what's up? And she said, I have this pain in the back of my knee and I can't find anything on Google, it doesn't make any sense. So we sat down in front of a chatbot and started a dialogue that um, we built up enough context, 'cause that's really important when you use these things, to interact and build up context. We got to the point where uh it told her, oh, you need to go to the hospital right now, because that's either deep vein thrombosis or a baker's cyst. And we got there because like, she basically said, well, I just tried this ...
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