Downloadables: Ai and Tech
Terms Defined:
Ai (Artificial Intelligence): A tool that collects data and uses this data to communicate and perform tasks. Intentionally spelled as “Ai” on this site.
Tech (Technology): Using machines and knowledge to solve problems.
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Kelly Tutors has attended many events on Ai and Technology. Topics have included automated driving vehicles with Ai, Ai film festivals, automated robots with farming, battery storage, energy sources, and lots more!!
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Ai + Tech: BLOG TLDR’s
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Top 8 Great Takeaways From Ai & Tech Events:
Ai + Tech: Full Length Blogs
TLDR: A French cultural event at Seattle's town hall that started slow with an awkward atmosphere, but was rescued by a visiting Paris-based professor who gave a brilliant talk connecting the Enlightenment to AI, arguing that organizing knowledge is a political act and that AI can either restore intellectual dependency or foster courage.
TLDR: Seattle's first OpenClaw AI meetup featuring demos of agentic AI deployments including a dairy farm intelligence system, team memory management tools, AI patent scanning, and discussions about giving AI agents persistent identities and virtual pets.
TLDR: A full-day corporate security tech conference covering AI data security, quantum computing threats (Q-Day 2029), post-quantum cryptography migration, and cybersecurity preparedness, followed by a West Coast Swing dance event in the evening.
TLDR: Author attends a virtual workshop on AI agents hoping to learn how to build one, but discovers the product (MuleRun) is actually a workflow automation tool -- not an agent builder -- and provides candid feedback about confusing marketing and event naming.
TLDR: The author attends a startup funding event featuring speakers on capital access, company culture, and acquisitions, including an inspiring blind PhD speaker advocating for accessibility in tech entrepreneurship.
TLDR: A disappointing AI workshop marketed as hands-on agentic AI building turned out to be lecture-only with no actual agent creation, leaving Kelly frustrated by the gap between marketing promises and delivery.
TLDR: Kelly attends an OpenAI workshop for small businesses and is frustrated that the content is extremely basic, noting that even the 70-year-olds in attendance already know how to use ChatGPT, while the mayor reads a ChatGPT-generated speech at the event.
TLDR: A university panel on how big-tech companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon use internal rituals -- dogfooding, design sprints, OKRs, hackathons, and pizza-team sizing -- to force behavior at scale, with the author offering a skeptical, culture-critical commentary on corporate control systems.
TLDR: The author attends a virtual White House office-hours session for an AI education competition, gathering advice on proposal formatting, rubric strategy, and submission logistics as she finalizes her AI-for-youth education proposal before the deadline.
TLDR: A frustrated rant about spending 12+ hours over four days dealing with six Xfinity customer service agents who ghosted, overcharged, shut off her phone, and broke every promise -- a case study in how terrible corporate customer service has become.
TLDR: Kelly attends two AI events in one evening -- a women-in-tech founder panel on fundraising and product-market fit, followed by a career-focused talk on upskilling with AI, domain expertise, and managing your own career trajectory in the age of automation.
TLDR: Kelly signs the White House AI Education pledge and critiques the lack of oversight in AI-generated youth content imagery, shares her own edutainment projects (fairytale rewrites, AI literacy songs), and documents how AI chatbots dismissed her pattern-recognition concerns before admitting their training biases.
TLDR: A triple-event day covering an underwhelming kelp innovation showcase, a Seattle port cruise tour learning about shipping logistics and tariff impacts on agriculture, and an impressive drone company demo showcasing SWAT and law enforcement drone technology.
TLDR: Author attends an AI ethics event at a local university covering tech, education, and healthcare, then scooters to a harvest gala's "commoners section" at a cool Seattle building, enjoying food and a fireplace but skipping detailed notes due to time pressure.
TLDR: The author's final day at a Mars Society convention in LA features talks on Mars mission timelines (18-30 years out), ESA's plans, NASA budget threats from DOGE, and a passionate closing speech defending space exploration, interspersed with personal reflections from Venice Beach skateparks.
TLDR: Kelly transcribes a disturbing overheard bus conversation about human trafficking networks, institutional infiltration, and exploitation, then uses AI tools to analyze and map the systemic funnel of trafficking from recruitment to control.
TLDR: Author attends multiple Mars and space travel speeches (two speakers no-showed), befriends a skateboarder, visits a free museum and rose garden, then abandons a cat-filled hostel due to allergies and rebooks accommodations while improvising her travel plans.
TLDR: Author travels to LA for an AI image-generation workshop near Venice Beach, watches skateboarding, tries out a new AI creative tool, and has an uncomfortable encounter with a drunk crypto bro who aggressively dismisses her investments.
TLDR: Stream-of-consciousness reflections written on a budget flight to LA for the Mars Society annual conference, covering trip planning, entrepreneurial hustle on a tight budget, a packed schedule mixing Mars lectures with Venice Beach skateboarding, and personal goals for building educational content.
TLDR: Kelly visits a second nuclear fusion research facility for an early-morning tour, comparing it to her previous NDA-restricted visit and noting the welcoming atmosphere, meme-filled culture, and potential for future collaboration.
TLDR: The author attends a virtual Presidential AI Education Challenge event hosted by a big tech company and finds it disappointingly basic, with demos of race cars and owls rather than meaningful educational AI tools, questioning the gap between federal ambition and corporate execution.
TLDR: Kelly attends a design and tech symposium followed by a youth hackathon downtown, observing beginners learning to pitch and hack while reflecting on AI trends, youth education, and the normalization of technology in creative problem-solving.
TLDR: A brief redirect post announcing Kelly Tutors' involvement with the White House's AI education initiative, linking to a dedicated page on her site rather than writing a full blog about it.
TLDR: A poorly attended community college small business event near home that turned into an AI infomercial from a local "task force" member selling his $39/month platform, followed by a much more enjoyable solo night of bachata dancing.
TLDR: The author receives a free refurbished laptop from a women's nonprofit tech organization, reflecting on her journey as a low-income entrepreneur building her tutoring business, followed by attending a salsa/bachata dance social.
TLDR: The author attends a city-partnered youth AI hackathon in Seattle where teens build AI-powered tools for a youth activity connector platform, and reflects on both the promise of youth tech empowerment and ethical concerns around alcohol branding at underage events, data privacy, and corporate pipelines targeting teens.
TLDR: A recap of an AI-focused coworking and job-seeking meetup in Seattle covering resume building, LinkedIn strategy, climate tech, and the startup ecosystem. The post reflects on intentional networking, the gap between big corporate culture and human fulfillment, and the promise of AI tools for career changers.
TLDR: An outsider's account of attending a major wireless company's innovation showcase, where facial recognition entry, attendee profiling spreadsheets, and 5G surveillance demos overshadowed the tech presentations. The post raises critical questions about normalized surveillance, engineered friction, and the gap between corporate messaging and human experience.
TLDR: A women-in-AI panel discussion covering topics like model fine-tuning, AI startup costs, safety and compliance, and the growing importance of human-tech interaction design, though much of the technical content was hard to follow due to squeaky audio and fast-paced panelists.
TLDR: An intellectually stimulating university talk exploring how AI becomes a "public problem" through charismatic individuals, error inventories, and journalistic practice, examining how failures reveal power dynamics and how "stance words" shape narratives.