Sessions
Each session’s page carries what happened in the room: an anonymous aggregate of the live polls, and a cleaned transcript in which student remarks are paraphrased and de-identified.
Items marked 🔒 are behind PennKey login via Canvas.
Session 1 — Orientation
Thursday, 27 August 2026
AI headlines and how they make us feel; the cybernetic/epistemic distinction; social-media MCP servers; what we each want from thinking.
Session 2 — Reading Your Own System Prompt
Thursday, 3 September 2026
What stuck from week one; the cybernetic siren call revisited; reading the system prompt you did not know you were running.
Session 3 — This Is Your Instrument
Thursday, 10 September 2026
Art, friction, and making Claude able to reach what you can reach.
Session 4 — Your Instrument, Deployed
Thursday, 17 September 2026
A week with the instrument you built; giving it a permanent home; and the handshake protocol that paired the room.
Session 5 — The Inner Weather
Thursday, 24 September 2026
Reading your own feelings as data — and giving your model a memory.