{"id":245570,"date":"2026-05-14T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/silver-harbor-brewing-hosts-democracy-brewing-for-community-to-discuss-artificial-intelligence-with-experts\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T01:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:30:12","slug":"silver-harbor-brewing-hosts-democracy-brewing-for-community-to-discuss-artificial-intelligence-with-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/14\/silver-harbor-brewing-hosts-democracy-brewing-for-community-to-discuss-artificial-intelligence-with-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Harbor Brewing hosts \u2018Democracy Brewing\u2019 for community to discuss artificial intelligence with experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silver Harbor Brewing hosts \u2018Democracy Brewing\u2019 for community to discuss artificial intelligence with experts<\/a><\/p>\n

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ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (WNDU) – St. Joseph has become a place where big ideas and cold beer go hand in hand.<\/p>\n

Democracy Brewing is a series of gatherings at local breweries during which everyday people come together to tackle some of today\u2019s toughest topics.<\/p>\n

Wednesday night\u2019s subject: artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

Silver Harbor Brewing may have been the only place in town with ai and Ipas on tap at the same time.<\/p>\n

Democracy Brewing takes those classic bar stool debates and gives them a purpose, turning conversation into community input and the focus on artificial intelligence and what it could mean for workers across Michigan.<\/p>\n

Inside the brewery, local experts broke down what ai can do now, and where they see it heading the next few years, fielding questions from the crowd and looking for real-world policy solutions.<\/p>\n

The biggest question hanging over the room: jobs. Audience members and panelists alike said they\u2019re already seeing positions disappear, work getting automated, and human labor getting swapped out for software that doesn\u2019t need a paycheck.<\/p>\n

And panelists said unlike the European Union the U-S is unlikely to put up meaningful guardrails without public pressure, meaning regulation won\u2019t happen unless people show up, speak up, and stay in the fight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe FDA regulates drugs and there\u2019s trials and there\u2019s all kinds of rigorous testing and scientific rigor that goes into drugs before we actually can prescribe those medications. Artificial intelligence is the same thing. It\u2019s just as powerful, maybe more so, and we need it to be regulated. I think we as people, the citizenry, have a responsibility to help draft those laws and help make sure our politicians are taking care of that for us,\u201d said Tom Castonzo a founder of Democracy Brewing.<\/p>\n

Organizers said they\u2019ll review the recording of the forum, then draft a letter to Michigan state representative Joey Andrews with proposed policy changes to strengthen the state\u2019s existing ai workforce plan and make it…<\/p>\n

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