Recap: 6/28/25 General Meeting - From Skeptic to Strategist:​How AI is Reshaping Education, Work, and Life

Many thanks to the Pi members who attended our meeting Saturday.  Annika Hallquist gave a marvelous talk about AI in her academic workplace and elsewhere.  The slide above was from her story of skepticism to nuanced trust that was so compelling.  As we discussed at the end, I hope that we'll be able to follow Ms. Hallquist in her career - her engineering and coding background along with her policy chops I think will serve her very well. 
 
One takeaway - this to share with young people in your family and friends network - that college students with actual work experience in their field when they graduate will have a much better time competing for jobs - so emphasize internships and professional work, along with experience using AI tools in work, for young peoples' greatest chance of success post undergrad graduation.
 
We finally got the YouTube live streaming going several minutes into Ms. Hallquist's talk.  So we've got the talk in Part 1 & Part 2 on our YouTube page  Watch both in order using this link to the Pi YouTube Page Playlist for General Meetings, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLo9UIQUVv00YWpkQMqwlbuQZ33O7CELCz
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Finally, congrats to Andy Schoka for winning the Pi Door Prize at the meeting.  Roy Wagner has already sent Andy a $25 Apple Gift Card - thanks Roy!