Music & Shows
Humans Required: AI Questions Only We Can Answer
Thursday, December 3, 2026
6:00pm
Chautauqua Community House, 301 Morning Glory Drive, Boulder, CO, 80302, United States, 900 Baseline Rd, Boulder, CO 80302
Door time: 5:30 PM
Event time: 6:00 PM
Supported by the Betsy Hitchcock Foundation
Decisions about AI are being made right now in companies, schools, hospitals, and statehouses, including Colorado’s. You don’t need a technical background to have a say in them. Join Ken Fricklas and Crys Black of the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group for an evening on the questions that need public judgment.
We’ll discuss:
How AI is changing the way we think
What we value
Who’s responsible when AI gets things wrong
What it means to be human
What it takes in energy and water to run AI
Questions are encouraged!
Speakers
Ken Fricklas
Ken Fricklas is co-founder and CTO of Nodiac, which builds small, distributed AI datacenters at solar and wind sites as an alternative to giant datacenter builds. He is a chair of MLCommons AI Safety, co-leads the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group’s Ethics and AI group, and created the AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance curriculum at the University of Denver. In 1997, he w...
Event time: 6:00 PM
Supported by the Betsy Hitchcock Foundation
Decisions about AI are being made right now in companies, schools, hospitals, and statehouses, including Colorado’s. You don’t need a technical background to have a say in them. Join Ken Fricklas and Crys Black of the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group for an evening on the questions that need public judgment.
We’ll discuss:
How AI is changing the way we think
What we value
Who’s responsible when AI gets things wrong
What it means to be human
What it takes in energy and water to run AI
Questions are encouraged!
Speakers
Ken Fricklas
Ken Fricklas is co-founder and CTO of Nodiac, which builds small, distributed AI datacenters at solar and wind sites as an alternative to giant datacenter builds. He is a chair of MLCommons AI Safety, co-leads the Rocky Mountain AI Interest Group’s Ethics and AI group, and created the AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance curriculum at the University of Denver. In 1997, he w...
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