Kitchen Table AI

Community = agency

I’m starting something small and weird: Teaching AI literacy at my kitchen table. Maximum 6 people. Snacks and laughter. Sliding scale pricing. My pets might photobomb. Here’s why, and why you should do it too.

A few weeks ago, a friend sent me a long rant about AI. Jobs lost. Unreliable technology. Managers making terrible decisions. He’s not wrong about any of it.

But then he said something that stuck with me: “I just don’t want to know anything about it.”

I get it. I really do. The whole situation is being imposed on us. We didn’t ask for this disruption. The profit motives are obvious and troubling. The psychological and social implications are daunting. The hype is exhausting.

But here’s what I keep seeing: There’s a widening gap between people who understand these tools and people who don’t. And that gap is starting to look like the difference between having agency in your work and having AI implementations handed to you.

❤️ I’m all about agency. And not just for the “tinkerer techies.”

The people I know who are thriving with AI aren’t replacing their expertise — they’re extending it. They’re not abandoning critical thinking — they’re applying it to a new tool category. They understand that AI is designed to please them, so they prompt it to challenge them instead.

And crucially: they’re not figuring this out alone. They’re in community with other tinkerers, sharing what works and what fails.

That’s what “Kitchen Table AI” is about. Creating a social space for people to:

🍴 Learn how these tools actually work (including their tendency toward pleasing users)

🍴 Practice techniques in a supportive environment

🍴 Share frustrations and breakthroughs

🍴 Build AI literacy as a *personal* and professional competency

🍴 Reduce anxiety through hands-on experimentation

It’s invitation-only, deliberately small, and priced on a sliding scale because I don’t want financial barriers keeping people out. We start with fun stuff: exploring voice chat with AI to work through ideas. Then we’ll move toward building small apps using Claude’s Artifacts, showing that coding skills are now accessible to people without traditional programming backgrounds. This isn’t about drinking the AI Kool-Aid. It’s about engaging with these tools on your own terms, with healthy skepticism and community support.

For the next month, my table is full. So I encourage you to think about creating your own, locally. Do a dev-centric one. Do one for small-business entreprenuers. Do one for school teachers. Do one for grandmas.

Be your brave self and then share it with others. Collectively, we have more ability to shape the future than we think.