Understanding AI

The Norman Williams Public Library is hosting a presentation, Understanding Artificial Intelligence (AI) by Brian Dellinger, Associate Director of IT at Dartmouth College’s Geisel School of Medicine. Please join us on Tuesday, September 30, at 6 pm to learn how AI impacts everyday life.

We encounter AI everywhere: it is embedded in our devices and is engaged when we shop, make a call, check our social media, or write an email. AI is in the news for both positive and negative reasons. AI makes things easier/AI requires vast amounts of energy; AI makes work more efficient/AI threatens jobs; AI is neutral and unbiased/AI is discriminatory based on biased training data.

Brian Dellinger aims to demystify AI for non-technical users. Through examples and analogies, he will help us build a basic understanding of what modern AI is about and how it is used to do seemingly intelligent things. Then, drawing on that knowledge, we will take a closer look at the strengths and weaknesses of current tools and discuss what the future may hold.

This event is free and all are welcome. Please email with questions.

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(From “Notes from NWPL” weekly column in the Vermont Standard, 9.25.25.)