Two free 90-minute AI classes for your patrons — no presenter fee for the library.
We used to plan trips through a travel agent named Carol, and when Carol retired, planning fell to me, and my method was forty browser tabs and a wife losing faith. The machine has not replaced judgment, but it has replaced the tabs. Here is how a trip gets built now. Tell it the whole situation in one paragraph. Two of us, late sixties, one bad knee, ten days in Portugal in October, museums over nightlife, walkable neighborhoods, and we prefer trains to driving. Ask for three itinerary skeletons with different paces, slow, medium, and ambitious, with realistic transit times between towns, because the machine is honest about the fact that you cannot be in Sintra at nine and Evora at eleven. The skeletons are for arguing with. Say day six looks exhausting, and it rebuilds. Ask which steps need booking ahead and which can be decided on arrival, a distinction that saves both money and spontaneity. It drafts the email to the guesthouse in Lisbon asking about ground floor rooms. It tells you what the train ticket should cost so the reseller marking it up 40 percent is visible. Then, and this matters, the bookings happen with humans, the real sites, the real confirmations, because the machine advises and does not transact. We still argue over dinner about day six. Some things no machine should settle. But the shape of the trip arrives in an evening instead of a month of tabs, and the knee is consulted before the calendar, which Carol always managed and I never could.
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A whole research field works on keeping AI accurate, fair, and controllable. It moves slower than the hype and matters more than skeptics admit.
Large AI systems use real electricity and water, and companies are racing to shrink that footprint. Everyday queries are light; the honest answer is that the total is growing and being worked on.
Every AI you can use today is narrow: excellent at one job, clueless outside it. A general AI matching human flexibility across tasks does not exist yet, whatever the headlines imply.
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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 Stanford Free Library and we will count you in when we schedule one there.
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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.
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No presenter fee. No contract. You provide the room, chairs and wifi — we bring everything else.
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Want a class here? Leave your email and we’ll tell you if one gets scheduled at Stanford Free 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.
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No. Nothing is sold or pitched in the room, and patrons never pay to attend. Take-home materials are free.
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.
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 →