AI Therapy
October 20, 2026
About the Series
Building on the original Elephants in the AI Room series, this December we aim to create a space for public professionals to talk openly about those concerns. These are not workshops or presentations. Each on-line, not-recorded 60-minute session is a facilitated conversation organized around one difficult topic or question per session.
To help ensure that we’re addressing topics of greatest importance to participants, we invite you to complete a very brief anonymous pre-survey that will help us understand what is on your mind so we can then prioritize which topics are addressed in the conversations. There is no fixed curriculum and no expectation that we will arrive at a single answer. The purpose is to create space for thoughtful conversation about the questions public professionals are already asking themselves as AI changes their work and the world around them.
Each conversation is free and open to all and will be offered three times during the day to make it easier for people in different locations and time zones to participate.
Powerful Partnerships
Join us to hear from Neil Kleiman, Director of NYU Wagner Innovation Labs, about how collaboration between private, public, and non-profit sectors have the potential to accomplish far more than any organization from a single sector can do.
Fast Field Scanning and Rapid Evidence Review
Join us to hear from Peter Bragge, Senior Research Fellow at BehaviourWorks Australia, Monash Sustainability Institute, about how to find solutions that have been tried before, how to assess the success of those solutions, and better evaluate whether solutions…
Data in Government
Join us to hear from Afua Bruce, former chief program officer at DataKind, about how data can be used to help define and solve problems.