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Demystify AI with author Jeff Pennington

Book Discussion

Join us for an engaging discussion with author and former Bay Area resident Jeff Pennington, inspired by his new book, "You Teach the Machines: AI On Your Terms."

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 the benefits and minimize the 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 automating human knowledge. Most importantly, understand and take advantage of the incredible benefits of this new technology, whether you like it or not.

A special segment, “The AI Talk,” will help kids talk to their parents, and parents guide their children as they deal with the educational, social, and psychological implications of artificial intelligence.
Join your neighbors from Tiburon and beyond to learn from Jeff and share the knowledge you already have. Gain a sense of agency to minimize harm and enhance your work and life with artificial intelligence.

BIO
Jeff Pennington has worked for more than twenty-five years in data, data science, and artificial intelligence. He has authored or co-authored more than twenty peer-reviewed papers in the fields of biomedical informatics, data privacy, and health AI. Jeff started his career developing web search analytics at Ask Jeeves, the first major commercial natural language search engine right across the Bay in Emeryville. Most recently, Jeff led data and artificial intelligence as Chief Research Informatics Officer for the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, where he worked for seventeen years before writing his first book. He is currently a strategic advisor to Manatt LLP on health data engineering and artificial intelligence. He serves as a Director on the Board of River Hospital in Alexandria Bay, NY, and coaches high school rowing in Philadelphia, PA. Jeff holds a bachelor’s degree in biology from Trinity College and a master’s degree in computer science from Drexel University.  

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