A NEW FORM OF CIVIC JOURNALISM

Join us in Zoom conversations we host with
experts and publish with a little help from AI

Follow our conversations on three Substacks

The conversations we most need to have.

We make the most of Zoom, Otter, NotebookLM and ChatGPT to efficiently mine the knowledge of experts. We strive to host the most compelling conversations we can over monthly dinners and online.

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Editor: Bill Walker
billwalker518@gmail.com


Serious conversations about AI.

AI at Work is our chronicle of the coming of Artificial General Intelligence, a series in which we strive to make sense of what Sam Rad calls the Age of Acceleration.

“AI is like vapor,” says Tom Friedman.
It seeps into everything.

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Editor: Dan Forbush
dan@smartacus.com


Spatial storytelling in the
Southern Adirondacks

With a team of Skidmore students experienced in AI speech synthesis, we’re creating the voices of notable historic figures and triggering their stories on phones with GPS.

With AI, we also swiftly convert interview transcripts into magazine-length feature stories. We invite members of this interest group to join our conversations with experts.

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Editor: Dominic Giordano
dom51903@gmail.com