This one grew out of a conversation in our Signal group: one member has been building an "AI Rabbi" that draws on Jewish texts and scholarship to apply centuries of religious thought to modern ethical dilemmas — and Anthropic recently made headlines for consulting religious scholars about the values embedded in AI. Could AI serve as a spiritual or moral advisor, and should it? When traditions disagree, whose interpretation does it privilege? What can religious scholarship teach us about building ethical AI — and are we already treating AI as an authority in ways that resemble religion?

More and more people are pairing AI with their printers — generating printable models straight from a prompt, for example. This session we want to hear how you're doing it, if you are, or what you've read or learned about it. We'll also let the conversation drift into robotics, since the two go hand in hand as AI in the physical world. If you've been printing parts for a robot, building an arm, or are just curious about getting started, this is a great night to jump in. No experience needed.

Everyone uses the term; nobody agrees on it. AGI gets invoked in earnings calls, safety papers, and bar arguments — usually meaning something different each time. This session we go around the table and actually define it: is it a benchmark score, an economic threshold, a capability checklist, or a goalpost that retreats every time something gets solved? Bring your definition, your least favorite definition, and your best argument for why the question does or doesn't matter.

For one night, AI on Tap leaves the brewery. We're taking over Slip Gallery in Belltown for a Show & Tell edition — part demo night, part gallery walk. Up to ten Seattle builders each set up a station with something they made using AI: a product, a prototype, a tool, a weird experiment. Quick one-minute intros, an hour of open gallery walk, then presenters answer the questions left at their stations.

Taking a breath of fresh air. It's easy to get bummed out by AI slop, deepfakes, and doom-scroll headlines — so this session we're dedicating the whole conversation to genuine causes for optimism: wider adoption of the SynthID watermarking standard, real AI breakthroughs in mathematics, and tools like OpenEvidence helping doctors make better-informed decisions in real time. Bring your favorite examples, tools, or papers that make you feel genuinely good about where this is heading.

What's actually runnable on a laptop in 2026 — Ollama, MLX, llama.cpp, and the open-weights landscape. Why local matters: privacy, cost, latency, control. Bring your machine and share what you've gotten working.

Wrapping up our Memory and Forgetting series — what gets remembered and erased in the AI age. Join us for the conclusion of this two-part conversation over beers at Life on Mars on Capitol Hill.

Continuing our exploration of memory, forgetting, and digital permanence. How do today's experiences — shaped by infinite content, algorithmic feeds, and AI interfaces — form the memories that define us? Optional reading: Delete by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, Your Face Belongs to Us by Kashmir Hill.

Six members gathered to explore how memory forms in an age of infinite content. A new member joined and one returned, bringing fresh perspectives to the table.