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
What are the conversations in Saratoga
we most need to be having?
Homelessness. Food insecurity. Affordability of housing. Preservation of open space.
All of these and more are on our list for mining and publishing expert knowledge in coming months.
Editor: Bill Walker
billwalker518@gmail.com
This may be the conversation
we most need to have:
AI’s transformation of Saratoga.
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.
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 recreating the voices of notable figures in history, starting with Lake Luzerne and triggering them 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.
Editor: Dominic Giordano
dom51903@gmail.com