February: You CAN Steer Your AI Ship! [02/12/2026]

   You Can Steer Your AI Ship!!   

What We Humans Can & Cannot Do in the Age of AI  

Cannot Do:

• Ignore AI

Can Do:

• Learn how AI can help at an Individual, Team, Organizational, and Ecosystem Level.

AI is like fire:

• Fire can be constructively used to heat your water, cook your food, and heat your house.
• However, fire can also burn your house down, burn your town down, and burn the forest to ashes.

Can We Control AI?
Geoffry Hinton, the Godfather of AI and a 2024 Nobel Laureate in Physics, is uncertain if we will be able to control AI. (We will listen to his 10 December 2024 warning in our session.)

You Too Can Save a Day a Week in Productivity!
One recent study by the London School of Economics (LSE) says that people who use AI well save a day of productivity every week.

What will AI be for you?

Let’s explore the good, bad, ugly, and unknown about AI in our society and workplaces.

Please join us on February 12 and lend your voice to this important discussion!  We will all walk away better prepared to thrive in this fast-moving, chaotic, innovative world!!

Speaker:  Pete Sorenson, Strategic Organization Design   {see BIO below} 

        
(Please join our LinkedIn Group if you haven’t yet done so, and comment on the discussions.)

Schedule for Thursday Evening February 12:  (CT)    
   –  6:45  Virtual setup and Networking
   –  7:00  Announcements / Intros  
   –  7:10  Program Begins  
   –  8:45  Closing and Wrap Up
   –  9:00  Program Ends

Zoom Link to join Virtual Meeting will be sent 2 days before meeting to all who register.

Speaker BIO:
           
Peter Jay Sorenson is a long-time organization development and organization design practitioner. He has been working in and around AI for the last couple of years and in and around technical innovation for over 50 years. He is curious and puzzled about AI and its impact on ourselves and our societies.

He is also the co-author, with Raghu Kowshik, of two books in the AI space:

• AI for the Ordinary: A Non-Technical Playbook for Citizens, Students, and Managers (forthcoming from Taylor and Francis – May 2026)
• Humane AI: The Covenant of Innovation (forthcoming from Taylor and Francis – September 2026)
• These are the first two books in a series curated and edited by Raghu Kowshik  .