Aged Intelligence Society hosts AI dinner parties for women over 40
Shoshana Berger and Nina Willdorf, former magazine editors, founded the Aged Intelligence Society to give women over 40 practical fluency with AI tools. Their dinner‑style events, limited to eight‑to‑twelve participants, have been oversubscribed from the start, and a wait‑list has formed after the second gathering was covered by The New York Times. The community’s Substack quickly surpassed…
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- Aged Intelligence Society caps dinner events at 8‑12 attendees and has been oversubscribed since launch.
- Their Substack gained over 1,000 subscribers, including a New Yorker writer and a small‑town mayor.
- Participants use AI tools like Claude to handle tasks such as summarizing insurance packets and revising consulting proposals.
At each party attendees bring a “midlife quandary” – a personal or professional task that feels overwhelming – and the hosts guide them through prompt engineering, tool selection, and iterative refinement. Examples shared include using Claude to parse a 300‑page insurance packet and to draft a stronger consulting proposal, even prompting a rate‑doubling recommendation. Berger and Willdorf stress that AI is a pragmatic assistant for the sandwich generation, helping women reclaim hours by automating administrative load while maintaining a critical eye on outputs.
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