May 2026

Join us on Saturday, May 16th, 2026, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. As usual, we will meet at the Devonshire Senior Center​​, 2802 E. Devonshire Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85016, to connect and catch up on club activities.

For May, member Eric Miller will talk about the thing everyone is talking about — AI with his talk:

Generative AI is Here. 7 AI Realities Writers Need to Know

This lecture will cover:

  1. What is Generative AI? 
  2. GenAI can replace you as a writer
  3. GenAI has some legal concerns for writers
  4. GenAI can be your research assistant
  5. GenAI can be your editor
  6. GenAI can be your illustrator or cover artist
  7. The Secret to Using GenAI is Prompting & Training

He will finish up with thoughts on the decisions we need to make as writers and some resources writers might find useful.

Eric is a business owner, engineer, tech ecosystem gadfly, and writer. On the writing side of things, he is a regular columnist for the Phoenix Business Journal, author of thousands of blog articles, a freelance content creator, and an aspiring fiction writer. For AI, he is a long-time user of other types of AI, and even with his strong technical background, he is just trying to keep his head above water as GenAI changes the world.