Welcome to Our Hen House.

This is Jasmine Singer.

This is Mary Ann Sullivan.

And this week, our very first episode of the year, we have an episode that we think you're going to love.

How are you feeling about AI?

Specifically, how do you relate to chat GPT, the program that maybe it does your writing for you?

Maybe it does your thinking for you.

Maybe it does your grocery shopping for you.

Are you super excited and embracing it like I am?

Can you tell?

Or are you avoiding it and maybe sighing in frustration at one more thing that is upending

the way you live and work?

Like, oh, I don't know, Marianne might be.

Either way.

The fact remains that it is here, and we have to learn the best way to use it to help animals. And that is why we are so

excited to have Tom Conger here to teach us everything you need to know. And boy, does he.

I loved this. This was so good. I found it so helpful. I found it actually inspiring, which,

you know, I kind of went into it thinking, oh, God, one more thing. And I still kind of feel like that. But, but he is so knowledgeable about it. He's so passionate about using it the best way we can in all sorts of different ways of doing activism. I did find it quite inspiring. Me too. This is, I would say,

one of my favorites. I don't think I say that every week, but I was so engaged. I genuinely

loved every single thing that came out of his mouth. This was a Flock Friday interview,

which means we recorded it live with the flock there. So if you're

in the flock and welcome to the flock, if you are or yay, thanks for being here, then you have an

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