AI Log speaks
The best essays on AI Log started as invited talks.
The speaking I do is essential to my thinking and writing, and I hope my talks contribute in small ways to turning what looks to many like the end of education as we know it into opportunities to improve institutions and systems of learning. I write about how I earn a living writing, teaching, and speaking about AI and education in this essay.
Most of my paid appearances are in-person, interactive engagements rather than Ted Talk-style lectures or my talking head on Zoom. Even my keynotes involve quite a bit of audience participation.
Here are some recent talks:
On Beyond Chatbots: Purpose-built AI Tools for Solving Academic Problems at the 2025-2026 AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.
Letβs Confabulate at Leepfrog Technologies, HQ in Iowa City.
Whatβs so Critical about Critical AI? at the Institute for Law Teaching & Learning Spring Conference in Philadelphia.
A Phaedrus Moment: If Socrates was wrong, does that make LLMs all right? at Perusall Exchange. Notes and image credits are here. An essay drawn from the talk is here.
What is an LLM doing in my classroom? at the 2024-2025 AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.
The Boring Revolution: How AI Will Change Education and the Workplace, and Why You Might Not Even Notice at Explorance World in Montreal. Notes and image credits are here. You can watch the talk, including the Q&A, on YouTube here.
I was invited to the Midwest Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship in Kansas City, Missouri, where I appeared on a panel about AI in education with a filmmaker and a lawyer. I was also part of a workshop on Perceptual Learning led by anthropologist Shannon Jackson, who argued we should think of human learning as a βpromiscuous coupling of perception and cognition.β This is now my favorite way to describe how humans learn!
If you want a general sense of the sorts of things I talk about, you can hear me on this episode of My Edtech Life talking with Fonz Mendoza. Lance Eaton featured a conversation we had on his Substack
.I can provide enthusiastic references for any of these talks upon request.
Visit my website to book me for your next education conference, podcast, or faculty workshop, or to arrange for me to talk with you and your organization.
The easiest way to contact me is using this link.