First Half: Professor Anne Foerst will discuss how AI has evolved from earlier approaches to today’s large language models. She'll focus on a key difference: earlier robotics were embodied systems that learned through interaction with the world, while modern AI is largely disembodied, trained on language patterns without true intelligence.

Second Half: Writer Damien Kross had a "nightshift" experience in which a craft stopped moving across the sky after he shone a flashlight toward its location. This led him to further research into the subject of extraterrestrials and multiple ongoing ET contact experiences.