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Past session · 24 June 2025
Session One: An Introduction for SLS Staff
The first of the library’s staff AI trainings: what generative AI is, what it is useful for, and how to approach it problem-first rather than tool-first. The presentation is below.
- Presented
- Tuesday, 24 June 2025
- Facilitators
- Taryn Marks and Will Huggins, Robert Crown Law Library
- Written for
- Stanford Law School staff, with no prior AI experience assumed
From June 2025, and the earliest material in this archive. The framing holds; the specific tools and screenshots are two generations old by now. For a current introduction, read Introduction to AI for Beginners.
The presentation
Use the three-dot menu in the player to open the speaker notes or to view the deck full screen.
What followed it
- Session two: breakout room lightning workshops — the hands-on follow-up two months later, with seven rooms and all their materials.
- Introduction to AI for Beginners — the ten-part course this session grew into, and the place to send anyone starting now.
- The PAUSE Rule — the problem-first workflow, written down.
Running an introduction for your own team? Email library@law.stanford.edu — we will come and do it, or help you run it yourself. All past sessions are in the archive.