The robots are already in the house
My husband resists new machines on principle, and the house now contains four robots, and he has named each one. The march happened quietly, and if you have not started it, here is the honest map for beginning after sixty. The thermostat came first, fifty dollars, and it pays for itself in a season by handling the schedule we kept forgetting to set. The robot vacuum, the entry one is 160 on sale, runs Tuesdays and Fridays while we are out walking, and the bit they do not tell you is that you must pick up the floor first, which turned out to be a feature, since the floor stays picked up. The video doorbell was the controversial one, and the argument ended the first time we saw the delivery driver leave the package with the neighbor and had the footage to prove it. The coffee maker merely thinks it is a robot. What ties this to the classes is the setup, because each of these machines wants an app and a wifi password, and this is precisely where people our age rightly balk, and precisely where the chat program earns its keep. Every instruction sheet, photographed, pasted in, and translated into English, one step at a time, with the follow up questions answered at your pace. Which light is supposed to blink. Why will it not accept the password. What does the manual mean by pairing mode. The manual assumes a teenager. The machine assumes nothing and explains everything twice if you ask. The house does not need to fill with robots. But the thermostat alone is worth the class, and the class is free, and the floor is picked up, which is more than I could say for the forty years before the Tuesday robot.
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AI, in plain English three small answers, no jargon
Deepfakes and media literacy
AI can fake faces, voices, and video convincingly. Verify before amplifying: find the original source, and slow down whenever something makes you furious, because that is the design.
AI that sees, hears, and reads
Multimodal AI works across photos, charts, audio, and text in one conversation. Show it your open fridge and ask what to cook; that is roughly today's level.
AI in libraries
Libraries are becoming the public's hands-on AI classroom, exactly as they were for the internet in the 1990s. Card catalogs taught lookup; today's library teaches judgment.
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From the library's own site, source.
Visit or contact
- Address: 82 Primrose Street, Katonah, NY 10536
- Phone: 914-232-5717
- Website and hours: somerslibrary.org
- System: Westchester Library System
Hours change with the season, so we link the library's own site instead of copying a schedule that could go stale.
Get an AI class here
Path one: ask the library directly. Patron requests carry real weight with program coordinators, and their website and phone number are linked above.
Path two: tell us you want a class at Somers Library and we will count you in when we schedule one there.
What you’ll find there
- Museum passes
- Library of Things
- Printing, copying, scanning
- Local history and genealogy
- Book clubs
- Homebound delivery
- E-books, audiobooks (Libby/OverDrive)
- Streaming movies (Kanopy)
- Language learning apps
Collected from the library’s own website. Availability changes — confirm details on their site.
Two free AI classes for Somers Library
Live, beginner-friendly, 90 minutes each. Your first two classes cost $0, including the presenter fee — bring us in, see how your community responds, then decide.
For library staff
Reply “send dates” to our email and we’ll send available times within a day. Or start here:
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No presenter fee. No contract. You provide the room, chairs and wifi — we bring everything else.
How booking works · browse all six class topics (no email needed)
I’m a patron of this library
Want a class here? Leave your email and we’ll tell you if one gets scheduled at Somers Library — and pass the count to their program coordinator.
One email only when scheduling news exists. Or call the library and say you’d attend — patron requests carry real weight.
Heard about us from a neighbor? Forward this page to whoever books programs at your library.
Is this a sales pitch to our patrons?
No. Nothing is sold or pitched in the room, and patrons never pay to attend. Take-home materials are free.
What’s the catch on “two free classes”?
None, and here is the model: your first two classes cost you nothing, we collect attendance and feedback, and the next library books us because yours proved it works. Repeat classes after that are a modest honorarium sized to your budget.
What do we need to provide?
A room, chairs, and wifi. We bring the projector, adapters, a backup hotspot, printed handouts — every attendee leaves with a printed AI cheat sheet.
Library AI Courses teaches free, live, 90 minute AI classes at public libraries across the region. A listing here is a directory entry, not an endorsement by the library. Classes get scheduled when a library books one or enough patrons ask. Library staff: how booking works →