Join your fellow islanders to learn and share the knowledge you need to enhance your work and life with artificial intelligence — instead of competing with it. 

Author and River Rat Jeff Pennington will educate and lead a discussion on artificial intelligence, based on his upcoming book You Teach the Machine, itself inspired by a talk Jeff first gave in TI Park the summer of 2024.  

This event will help people of all backgrounds understand, live with, and use artificial intelligence. Drawing on twenty-five years of experience in the field and real examples from finance, cooking, technology, marketing, health, music, driving, and more, Jeff’s talk will help you maximize benefit and minimize harm from the AI-driven change already happening in your life. 

Learn how you and your data are used to teach today’s AI, and what you can do to protect yourself. Helpful examples guide you through what AI excels at—and where it is still a work in progress. Gain actionable insight into the pitfalls and side effects of a new industrial revolution in the automation of human knowledge. Most importantly, understand and take advantage of the incredible benefits to be had from this new technology, whether you like it or not.

A special segment “The AI Talk” will help parents and grandparents guide the children in their lives as they deal with education, social, and psychological implications of artificial intelligence.