First Half: Anne Foerst, Professor of Computer Science at St. Bonaventure University, will discuss how artificial intelligence has evolved from earlier approaches to today’s large language models. She will focus on a key difference: earlier robotics were embodied systems that learned through interaction with the world, much like an infant, while modern AI is largely disembodied, trained on language patterns and sentence completion without genuine understanding or 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.