Where is AI in 2026 and Where is it Going?

Where is AI in 2026 and Where is it Going? is a public workshop at the Windsor Park Branch Library on Tuesday, August 4, from 6 to 7:30 PM. It's a free session open to all ages, and you don't need any technical background to join in. The whole thing is built around one question: where might AI be in the next one to five years, and what does that mean for daily life for the rest of us?

The timing is the point. AI systems have advanced at a pace that's stunned the public and even surprised the experts who build them, and that shift is already showing up in the real world. It's reshaping work and the economy, changing how we handle relationships, and even altering the nature of crime. The workshop takes those broad changes and brings them down to a human scale, asking how they'll actually land in our day-to-day lives over the next few years.

Because it's open to all ages and requires no technical background, it's less of a lecture and more of a conversation. You don't have to be a coder or a tech enthusiast to have a take on where this is headed—the whole point is to hear from people who are living with these changes rather than just reading about them in the news. If you've been following the headlines and wondering what it all actually adds up to, this is a good place to talk through it with other people in the neighborhood.

The workshop runs from 6 to 7:30 PM at the Windsor Park Branch Library, 5833 Westminster in East Austin. It's free, so you can just show up.