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AI in Everyday Life

Exploring how AI will transform our daily routines, work, and interactions—from smart homes and personalized assistance to healthcare and education. A look at tomorrow's intelligent world.

"AI in Everyday Life" explores how autonomous intelligence is likely to shape daily experience in the years ahead. Rather than focusing on distant science fiction or purely technical breakthroughs, this talk examines how AI is already becoming woven into work, education, healthcare, creativity, and personal decision-making. The talk considers how intelligent systems may act as collaborators, assistants, and intermediaries, changing how people write, learn, plan, and solve problems. It also addresses how automation and augmentation may alter jobs and professional identities, not simply by replacing tasks, but by reshaping what counts as human expertise. Attention is given to the quieter implications of AI adoption: shifts in trust, authority, privacy, and responsibility when decisions are increasingly mediated by algorithms.

Speaker Bio

David J. Staley, Ph.D., is a writer, designer, futurist, historiographer, presenter, educator, advisor, and public intellectual, and was recently described as an "eclectic academic." He is an Associate Professor in the departments of History and Design at The Ohio State University, and is the author of several books, including The AI Symposium; Anticipatory Biographies: Personal Histories of the Future; Alternative Universities: Speculative Design for Innovation in Higher Education; Knowledge Towns: Colleges and Universities as Talent Magnets; and Visionary Histories, a collection of his essays about the future. He is the host of the "Voices of Excellence" podcast, and president of Columbus Futurists, a local think tank. In 2022, he was awarded "Best Freelance Writer" by the Ohio Society of Professional Journalists for his "Next" futures column with Columbus Underground.

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